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How do you translate textbook literature into those visualizations if they aren't provided for you? I struggle with this, even reading news articles at times.

• screye 7y ago
  It is more of a relation graph. You identify the root variables/ideas on which the whole premise hinges. These ideas are absolute, assumed true without rationale and independent. Then you establish dependent ideas and variables which are connected to these base variables along with a few minor isolated assumptions needed to support the structure. ( I mean it is not perfect, so the minor assumptions keep the whole thing form falling apart) Once you have all the nodes, you connect new ideas as they come and as they fit into this view. It is almost like a clustering task or think word2ve tsne visualization (https://miro.medium.com/max/3200/0*quUwP6EqEhFmNAqX https://miro.medium.com/max/3200/0*quUwP6EqEhFmNAqX) Now you have a visualization, from something that never had any images to begin with. The distance between nodes can indicate how strong the relation is and colors can indicate positivity/negativity. Once you have that, it becomes incredibly easy to hold very complex ideas in your head and it makes it a breeze to explain something. Just start from the root node and work your way up to the leaf, and the thing explains itself.