An interactive visualization exploring the research landscape at Mahidol University from 2021-2025, built using the MUREX (Mahidol University Research EXplorer) database.
🗺️ Explore the visualization (recommended using Google Chrome on desktop)
This project visualizes the evolution and structure of research at Mahidol University over a 5-year period, revealing patterns in interdisciplinary collaboration and emerging research themes at Mahidol University. The visualization employs dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques inspired by The Illustrated NeurIPS 2025.
Following the approach from the Illustrated NeurIPS visualization blog, we:
- Generate LLM Content: Each paper includes AI-generated summaries and contextualization for easier exploration (e.g. techniques, explain like I'm 5, main findings, ...)
- Embed Research Papers: Generate semantic embeddings of papers using their titles and abstracts
- Dimensionality Reduction: Apply UMAP to project high-dimensional embeddings into 2D space
- Clustering: Identify research clusters using HDBSCAN
- Interactive Visualization: Build an explorable interface using
datamapplot
