Great observations from both Steves. But I would add that the map -- as
helpful as it is -- strikes me as very English- and perhaps U.S. - centric.
For example, we have recently learned of the close connections in Latin
America among those who coming from both physics and philosophy to study
Compl
The journal article referenced in the NY times piece is at
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004803 and is
worth a read. Lots more pretty pictures. Also some intriguing stuff about
how they built this map. Basically, it's from readers' clickstreams: this
map is actually
Hi All:
I am Stephen Thompson and relatively new to this email stream. I
recently completed an MS in software engineering however, I am employed
as an investment analyst for the past 25 years. I listen in on this
conversation to learn interesting things. The Map of Knowledge
discussed in
My day job is for the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters.
I'm pretty sure someone did something similar using citation indexes.
If only I could find the link.
~~James
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> Map of knowledge
> at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16v
Map of knowledge at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=2&emc=eta1 built
by scientists from LANL, SFI etc.
I must admit, I have a hard time working out what these network
visualizations are meant to be telling me. That academic disciplines
are connected? Did I *
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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From: Robert Holmes
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 3/17/2009 6:14:58 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] It's cute but what is it for?
Map of knowled
Map of knowledge at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=2&emc=eta1 built
by scientists from LANL, SFI etc.
I must admit, I have a hard time working out what these network
visualizations are meant to be telling me. That academic disciplines are
connected? Did I *really* not k
