Sci2 Manual : 4.4 Sci2 Release Notes v1.0 alpha

Announcement

This release is built with CIShell 2.0 framework. It includes support for Mac OS X Cocoa platform, and new features such as new visualizations, Google Scholar Citation reader, R bridging, Gephi bridging, and many more. See the change log below for full details

Note: 

The database plugin at 3.2 Additional Plugins is not compatible with this version. A new database plugin will be available soon. Please follow us at http://sci2.cns.iu.edu

Documentation

Download an offline copy of Sci2 v1.0 alpha manual (44 MB)  (Updated July 16, 2012) 

Patches

Tool Change Log

New Features

Improvements

  • Support overflow and underflow check for aggregate functions
  • Unified output attribute names for network algorithms
  • Unified visualization parameters and console print out
  • Standardized visualization Postscript layout with How to Read text, legends and title
  • Reposition map for Geographical Network Algorithm
  • Improved Error message handling for Geographical Network algorithm
  • Updated online tutorial to explain Author Ages issue
  • Updated online tutorial regarding ISI total time cited default -1 value
  • Improved bipartite network edges drawing
  • Improved bipartite sorting for numerical numbers that are string type
  • Updated developer list
  • Improved bipartite sorting for numerical numbers that are string type
  • Updated new color schema for all visualizations to follow color blind standard
  • Updated UCSD map of science with 10 years of ISI and Scopus journal mapping, discipline colors, and added unclassified journal listing. 
  • Added download utility to standardize network handling for algorithms that use internet service
  • Moved R working directory into system temporary directory
  • Updated FreeHEP (a Java2D object to PostScript conversion library) to 2.1.1
  • Updated Geolibs (an open source Java GIS toolkit) to 2.7.4
  • Updated Menu items
    • Update menu item order and structure
    • Rename Circle Geographical Map to Proportional Symbol Map
    • Rename Region Geographical Map to Choropleth Map
    • Rename Yahoo Geocoder name to Yahoo! Geocoder
    • Rename K-Nearest Neighbor (java) to K-Nearest Neighbor

Bug fixes

  • Fixed overflow issue of dropdown box in GUESS
  • Fixed missing model.jpg issue
  • Fixed menu path for all algorithms
  • Fixed NULL pointer exception on Aggregate function
  • Fixed Proportional Symbol Map failure to handle float value
  • Fixed Proportional Symbol Map Null Pointers issue
  • Fixed weighted PageRank failure to handle weight error
  • Fixed duplicate items of GUESS dropdown box
  • Removed the misleading author name normalization message from ISI file load algorithm 

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