discovermagazine.com — The bigger a node is, the more papers it contains. Heavily cited papers appear in more than one node. Black lines connect any nodes that contain the same papers; the darker a link is, the more papers the connected nodes have in common. These links create the structure of the map and tend to pull similar scientific disciplines closer to one another.
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larianlequellaJun 7, 2007
That is actually pretty darn cool. Wish I could really zoom in on the picture and look at the words though.
egroeggnikJun 7, 2007
The middle isn't the Borg, It's religion and a Creator.FSM FTW!
spelunkerJun 7, 2007
FTA:"5 The Friendster ElementOn the map, computer science is linked more closely to social sciences like psychology and sociology than to applied physics. 'If you trust it for a minute, it does make intuitive sense,' Paley says. Social networks like Friendster depend heavily on software programs, while social scientists frequently rely on computers for statistical analysis."
rcook18Jun 7, 2007
It might be interesting to see an animation of these relationships over time. Perhaps you would find your link to philosophy in the animation.
adb44Jun 7, 2007
The problem is that the data processing techniques you use to make something like this can produce very different results from very minor changes. Essentially the raw data is very, very high dimensional, which destroys almost every aspect of intuitive geometry. You can slice a picture in 1000 dimensions into two dimensions and have it look almost however you want. The rules for clustering are similarly touchy and the results unintuitive when dealing with high dimensional data. It's a cool picture and conforms a lot to what we expect, but that could very well be because we expect it to look like that.
macenvyJun 8, 2007
The thing that connects them all is the scientific method. That's really all that is required for something to be called a science.That's also why many people don't consider "Political Science" an actual science ... Chris Matthews said that very thing tonight on Hardball, coincidentally.
infiniumJun 8, 2007
biochem is there. Bottom left inner ring.
nettsightNov 12, 2008
I remember they where compiling together thelogistics for the grand unified theory (GUT) witha similar method. It's said that this should be solved by 2040 depending on the Higgs particleand similar results from CERN.netsight: <a class="user" href="http://netsight.pbwiki.com/">http://netsight.pbwiki.com/</a>
kitfancNov 15, 2009
Dugg for the enlightenment. Kinda wish the image had been bigger, too, tho. Just wondering what were the keywords on the "threads."Thx for sharing.<a class="user" href="http://ArticleWritingNews.com" rel="nofollow">http://ArticleWritingNews.com</a>(Flying Spaghetti Monster... LOL!)