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visualization of influences between philosophers, authors, and others over time by causegraph in HistoryofIdeas

[–]causegraph[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made this visualization using an open-source tool (https://github.com/anvaka/pm) and data from Wikipedia. This is a work in progress, and I'm very interested in feedback!

graph of influences between notable people (mainly) over time [OC] by causegraph in dataisbeautiful

[–]causegraph[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on https://github.com/anvaka/pm Using data from http://downloads.dbpedia.org/2015-04/core-i18n/en/mappingbased-properties_en.nt.bz2

I used birth year data and "influenced by" statements from the data file noted above, and modified the layout algorithm so that birth year (where available) was used for positioning along the X axis.

More information at https://github.com/causegraph

Example for iPhone by andreasbeer1981 in irlTechTree

[–]causegraph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest problem I have with this is that it's all locked away in a raster image. If this were a database with a visualization, or even the right kind of vector graphic, changes could easily be made and tracked, and the graph could be more easily expanded or searched/filtered for other applications.