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Find an interactive version of EdgeMaps at mariandoerk.de/edgemaps/demo

As the oldest scholarly discipline, philosophy has been asking questions about the human condition for more than two thousand years. To show the propagation of ideas and influence among philosophers across epochs and interests we have developed a novel visualization technique. EdgeMaps represent philosophers as dots on interest maps and time lines, their influence connections as curved links, and similarity based on common interests and occupations as proximity in the plane. EdgeMaps treat influence connections as explicit and similarities as implicit relations. Each philosopher has a unique representation that allows for the exploration of their extent of influence and easily distinguishes between incoming and outgoing influence. Using layouts based on topical and temporal similarity, visual patterns emerge that resemble fireworks and waves.

The interest map uses multi-dimensional scaling, a technique that maps a high-dimensional information space to a spatial representation so that proximity corresponds to similarity. Dots are scaled according to relative significance of a philosopher, i.e., the number of outgoing influence connections. The similarity is double-encoded as colour using the location in the interest map: distance to the centre is mapped to saturation, and the angle around the centre to hue. For the time line, the philosophers are aligned according to the temporal order of birth dates from left to right.

More informationMarian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Carey Williamson. EdgeMaps: Visualizing Explicit and Implicit Relations. Proceedings of VDA 2011: Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, IS&T/SPIE, paper 7868-14, 12 pages, January 2011.

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