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Mapping Philosophy
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Valentin Lageard 2016/06/28
Recently, i was on Philpapers searching for references on their categorie page. The completness of their taxononmy was striking and I thought : "Could it be possible to map this taxonomy ?".
I decided it was a nice idea and i started to work on it.
The first step was to select the kind of graph and since their taxonomy includes a hierarchy permitting to sub-categories to be children of more than one parent categories, I selected a concentric circles graph.
Because I'm a python user, I choosed Networkx for the graph part and BeautifulSoup for the scraping part. Furthermore, since Philpapers gives the articles number for each category, I decided to add this data to my graph.
After some configurations of the display, I finally reached my goal : a map of the taxonomy of philosophy. And it was quite beautiful.
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(The image displayed is only a thumbnail, download the image if you want the full resolution map)
Map Legend :
- Size of nodes : number of articles in this node.
- Relations between nodes : parent/children relation between categories.
