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Paul Graham's Essays Visualized as Infographic Series
- nose4job 7y agoWhat was the criteria for choosing which essays to visualize? I don't see a lot of his popular one...
- markvitals 7y agoWe only pick the one that have a structure that is easy to visualize. Which usually looks like headings and sub-headings or a list of things.
- alexzender 7y agolots of work and many facts, wow. Do you do the analysis manually or extract the facts somehow automatically?
- markvitals 7y agoAll the work was done manually. We just selected those essays which has a structure, summarized either in bullet points or headings. We edited each fact, reducing text, because with icon you don't need as much text. Regarding automation I experimented with text extraction (using abstractive text summarization) but haven't got good results yet.
- alexzender 7y agoUnderstood, thanks. The "Where Are The Big Ideas" is my favourite.
- markvitals 7y agoNice, the infographic is loosely based on his essay "Schlep Blindness". I recommend to read the original essay as well "How to hold a program in once head" - is my favorite one.
- alexzender 7y ago> ordinary programmers working in typical office conditions never really understand the problems they're solving Cannot agree more
- pitbitbuck 7y agoI don't see a lot of his essays here... Did I miss something?
- markvitals 7y agosee the reply above ^