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I really like the simplicity of this. I suppose this was done by hand. Having such an overview while doing the research would be really beneficial for discover

I really like the simplicity of this. I suppose this was done by hand. Having such an overview while doing the research would be really beneficial for discovering novel ideas and connections. I haven't come across such a tool as of yet.

motoboi 4y ago
I would love to have an ideas and people genealogy where you can select a thinker like Rousseau and have a graph of the main ideas in his works and their predecessors. Think about his amour de soi. Did it existed previously anywhere else? Who talked about something similar earlier? I'd die for something like that.
- johndbeatty 4y ago
  I wanted something like this as well, and I have a prototype of something much simpler (using node2vec to generate embeddings using data from Wikidata and DBpedia (and Twitter)). It doesn't really do what you want, but you might find it interesting. Rousseau: https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c Amour de soi: https://pov.is/e/82e9f674-ebbf-4c36-b225-ec1653ce3367 https://pov.is/e/82e9f674-ebbf-4c36-b225-ec1653ce3367 You can go backwards and forwards in time using by-year view (though missing data in Wikidata makes this a bit difficult): https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c?i=Q5&o=year https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c?i=Q5&o...
basementcat 4y ago
Much of this information is available from the Mathematics Geneology Project. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=100193 https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=100193
ray__ 4y ago
There is academictree.org, which provides "academic genealogy" for quite a few disciplines–is this the type of tool you're looking for?
- biomcgary 4y ago
  Thank you! I had never looked up my academic genealogy before, which includes Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, and Michael Polanyi.

motoboi 4y ago

I would love to have an ideas and people genealogy where you can select a thinker like Rousseau and have a graph of the main ideas in his works and their predecessors. Think about his amour de soi. Did it existed previously anywhere else? Who talked about something similar earlier? I'd die for something like that.

johndbeatty 4y ago
I wanted something like this as well, and I have a prototype of something much simpler (using node2vec to generate embeddings using data from Wikidata and DBpedia (and Twitter)). It doesn't really do what you want, but you might find it interesting. Rousseau: https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c Amour de soi: https://pov.is/e/82e9f674-ebbf-4c36-b225-ec1653ce3367 https://pov.is/e/82e9f674-ebbf-4c36-b225-ec1653ce3367 You can go backwards and forwards in time using by-year view (though missing data in Wikidata makes this a bit difficult): https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c?i=Q5&o=year https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c?i=Q5&o...

basementcat 4y ago

Much of this information is available from the Mathematics Geneology Project. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=100193 https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=100193

ray__ 4y ago

There is academictree.org, which provides "academic genealogy" for quite a few disciplines–is this the type of tool you're looking for?

biomcgary 4y ago
Thank you! I had never looked up my academic genealogy before, which includes Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, and Michael Polanyi.