1. Mapping funding activity Tristan Maillard, SNSF

2. SNSF Research creates knowledge. Portfolio Analysis of a funding agency SNSF is Switzerland’s most important funding agency Mainly bottom up research funding Multi-disciplinary research funded: from humanities to life sciences. Proposal in 3 different languages. Open questions ( policy/decision making ) Does the SNSF discriminate some research fields? Is there research fields that does not apply to the SNSF for funding? How do I find the most adequate referees? Methodology Modeling semantic information of 30k proposals and 100k publications Explore data through visualization technics.

3. SNSF Research creates knowledge. Portfolio Analysis: challenges Methodological challenges Going beyond co-citations ( different cultures of citations, database issues ) Risks of over-interpretation: A visualization is not an explanation. Modeling is not reality! Semantic challenges Multi-lingual proposals ( French, German, English ) Find the right database to define research activity. Limitations of WoK, Scopus Supervised vs non-supervised methods Mapping challenges The dataviz must be useful : it must depend on the question asked. Interactive visualisation: performance on large datasets.

4. SNSF Research creates knowledge. Me, myself and I Background in theoretical physics Marie Curie Fellow on String Theory modeling Quit research for administration Science administration Head of unit science coordination Data mining for decision making and policy