Science Map: 800,000 Papers Sorted into 776 Paradigms

[Thrice]

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/9930/scimapgx8.jpg [Broken]

This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links (curved black lines) were made between the paradigms that shared papers, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer one another when a physical simulation forced every paradigm to repel every other; thus the layout derives directly from the data.

I think it's fascinating how computer science seems to link the hard & soft sciences.

You can download a rather large version of the map. You can also http://informationesthetics.org/node/20" a "free" poster for the price of shipping and handling.

 

[neutrino]

Am I the only person seeing a hairy bearded man in that map? :uhh:

 

[Thrice]

Man? What man? It's clearly a vision of His Noodliness.

 

[G01]

Man? What man? It's clearly a vision of His Noodliness.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[Mallignamius]

Thanks for that. Will order the poster ASAP. That's just beautiful.