Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Science and Technology Facts -- Science and Technology from Above -- Systems Science Approach -- Micro: Individual Level -- Meso: Local Level -- Macro: Global Level -- Universal: Multilevel -- S&T Dynamics: Trends and Bursts of Activity -- S&T Dynamics: Structural Changes -- S&T Dynamics: Diffusion and Feedback Patterns -- Part 2: Envisioning Science and Technology -- Motivation -- Foundations and Aspirations -- Framework -- Needs-Driven Workflow Design -- Insight Need Types -- Data Scale Types -- Visualization Types -- Graphic Symbol Types -- Graphic Variable Types -- Graphic Variable Types Versus Graphic Symbol Types -- Acquire -- User Needs Acquisition -- Data Acquisition -- Analyze & Visualize -- Statistical Studies -- Statistical Visualization Types -- Temporal Studies-"When" -- Temporal Visualization Types -- Geospatial Studies-"Where" -- Geospatial Visualization Types -- Topical Studies-"What" -- Topical Visualization Types -- Network Studies-"With Whom" -- Network Visualization Types -- Studying Dynamics -- Deploy -- Combination -- Interaction -- Human-Computer Interface -- Interpret -- Validation and Interpretation -- Part 3: Science Maps in Action -- Places & Spaces: Mapping Science -- Fourth Iteration (2008): Science Maps for Economic Decision Makers -- Europe Raw Cotton Imports in 1858, 1864, and 1865 -- Shrinking of Our Planet -- Tracing of Key Events in the Development of the Video Tape Recorder -- World Finance Corporation, Miami, Florida, ca 1970-1979 (6th Version) -- Examining the Evolution and Distribution of Patent Classifications -- Ecological Footprint -- The Product Space -- 4D. The Structured Visual Approach to Business-Issue Resolution -- The Scientific Roots of Technology -- A Global Projection of Subjective Well-Being.

Fifth Iteration (2009): Science Maps for Science Policy Makers -- Science and Society in Equilibrium -- Networks of Scientific Communications -- Realigning the Boston Traffic Separation Scheme to Reduce the Risk of Ship Strike to Right and Other Baleen Whales -- Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis -- Death and Taxes 2009 -- Chemical R&D Powers the U.S. Innovation Engine -- A Topic Map of NIH Grants 2007 -- A Clickstream Map of Science -- U.S. Vulnerabilities in Science -- The Millennium Development Goals Map -- Sixth Iteration (2010): Science Maps for Scholars -- Tree of Life -- The Human Connectome -- Diseasome: The Human Disease Network -- Human Speechome Project -- Mapping the Archive: Prix Ars Electronica -- Knowledge Cartography -- Literary Empires: Mapping Temporal and Spatial Settings of Victorian Poetry -- The Emergence of Nanoscience & Technology -- Weaving the Fabric of Science -- U.S. Job Market: Where Are the Academic Jobs? -- Seventh Iteration (2011): Science Maps as Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries -- Mondothèque. Multimedia Desk in a Global Internet -- Two Charts Illustrating Some of the Relations between the Branches of Natural Science and Technology -- Visualizing Bible Cross-References -- Finding Research Literatureon Autism -- Design Vs. Emergence: Visualization of Knowledge Orders -- Map of Scientific Collaborations from 2005-2009 -- The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, 1947-2005 -- Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe -- MACE Classification Taxonomy -- History of Science Fiction -- Part 4: Outlook -- S&T Trends -- Data Monitoring and Analytics -- Real-Time Visualization -- Democratizing Knowledge and Participation -- International Science Observatory -- References & Credits -- Index.