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TOOL NEEDED
It’s primarily a graphics tool for building clickable entity-relationship networks (in the broadest sense) that are viewed in web browsers. Ideally it’s open source with a publicly editable form, like a wiki.
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It’s primarily a graphics tool for building clickable entity-relationship networks (in the broadest sense) that are viewed in web browsers. Ideally it’s open source with a publicly editable form, like a wiki.
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It should be possible to drill down to any level, where each node can be a web page built by this tool.
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I can think of multiple applications, in education, research, and journalism.
1. In https://twitter.com/conways_law/status/1291359731542630400
I propose that journalists and social scientists use this tool to understand and display criminal and other social networks.
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1. In https://twitter.com/conways_law/status/1291359731542630400
I propose that journalists and social scientists use this tool to understand and display criminal and other social networks.
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2. In its wiki form it could be a collection point for people to build public understanding about things whose understanding requires pooling disparate information, such as local crime patterns.
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3. It can be a documentation tool. For decades I’ve been writing random working papers, with no a priori organization. This tool could present them in a concept map.
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4. Wouldn’t it be nice to use something like this to display how the parts of a discipline like biology are interconnected? It could be a scholarship amplifier.
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5. It should be possible for a prosecutor to build and maintain an entire theory of a case, including parts with unclear or ambiguous connections. Sort of what you see on the walls in crime shows using clippings and string.
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Is there something already out there that will do this? Let us know.
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