Wow. Take a look at this post by one of my current favorite blog reads, Gerry McKiernan, Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian at the Iowa State University Library out in Ames IA. Gerry writes about this mashup between the Pub Med database of biomedical literature and what is called the Chernoff Faces visualization technique (I have never heard of it this). It allows you to search the database, and then presents the results in the form of a face that represents different aspects of the article. For example, a paper that has been cited many times will be represented by a face with a large smile. This is just one aspect of the paper that gets visually represented.
It seems like an odd incompatible combination of applications, and I’m not sure of its usefulness. I’m interested to know if, how, and when this actually gets used.
