Information School
Affiliate, Data Science Fellow, Steering Committee
Specializations
Ethnography & Communication, Informatics, Reproducibility & Open Science, Visualization & Human Computer Interaction
Biography
Applications in Life Sciences
Applications in Social Sciences
Data Analytics
Visual Analytics
Physics
Jevin West is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington and a member of DataLab. He builds models, algorithms and interactive visualizations for understanding the flow of information in large knowledge networks. Two particular areas of interest are scholarly communication and intellectual property. Jevin co-founded Eigenfactor.org – a free website and research platform for mapping science and identifying influential papers, journals and scholars.