http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/18/cool-visualizations/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:33:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/18/cool-visualizations/comment-page-1/#comment-190396 franck Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:49:21 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/18/cool-visualizations/#comment-190396 What precisely is "Materials"? Does this mean most of condensed matter physics, or is that in Quantum Physics? The categories seem a little weird. What precisely is “Materials”? Does this mean most of condensed matter physics, or is that in Quantum Physics? The categories seem a little weird.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/18/cool-visualizations/comment-page-1/#comment-190340 vivian Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:08:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/18/cool-visualizations/#comment-190340 Wow. A favorite professor used to try to generate a graph like this on the chalkboard back in the day (inspiring to some of us, baffling and dusty to most). I can't wait to send him this link. So were these people channeling the Buzan brothers, or is this node-plus-sentence-like-tendrils style more common than I realize? Wow. A favorite professor used to try to generate a graph like this on the chalkboard back in the day (inspiring to some of us, baffling and dusty to most). I can’t wait to send him this link. So were these people channeling the Buzan brothers, or is this node-plus-sentence-like-tendrils style more common than I realize?

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/18/cool-visualizations/comment-page-1/#comment-190319 J. Ellenberg Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:13:13 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/18/cool-visualizations/#comment-190319 I'd like to see a map of the MSC classifications within mathematics, with distances between x and y given by the data of how frequently a paper was classified under both heading x and y. <a href="http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/" rel="nofollow">MathSciNet</a> already has all this data, so producing the picture is surely doable. I’d like to see a map of the MSC classifications within mathematics, with distances between x and y given by the data of how frequently a paper was classified under both heading x and y. MathSciNet already has all this data, so producing the picture is surely doable.

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