The Graph of Ideas, by Brendan Griffen, www.griffsgraph.com
Taking everyone and anyone from Wikipedia, Griff’s graphs ambitiously maps all people whose wiki contains ‘influences’ and/or ‘influenced by’. The result is an amazing Gephi visualization of philosophers, authors, and comedians (!), displaying the popular influencer with larger nodes. Note: the graph is biased towards Western ideologies and culture, and missing many influential people that are not recorded in Wiki.
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