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I really like the simplicity of this.

I suppose this was done by hand. Having such an overview while doing the research would be really beneficial for discovering novel ideas and connections. I haven't come across such a tool as of yet.

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Much of this information is available from the Mathematics Geneology Project. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=100193

There is academictree.org, which provides "academic genealogy" for quite a few disciplines–is this the type of tool you're looking for?

Thank you! I had never looked up my academic genealogy before, which includes Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, and Michael Polanyi.

I would love to have an ideas and people genealogy where you can select a thinker like Rousseau and have a graph of the main ideas in his works and their predecessors.

Think about his amour de soi. Did it existed previously anywhere else? Who talked about something similar earlier?

I'd die for something like that.

I wanted something like this as well, and I have a prototype of something much simpler (using node2vec to generate embeddings using data from Wikidata and DBpedia (and Twitter)). It doesn't really do what you want, but you might find it interesting.

Rousseau: https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c Amour de soi: https://pov.is/e/82e9f674-ebbf-4c36-b225-ec1653ce3367

You can go backwards and forwards in time using by-year view (though missing data in Wikidata makes this a bit difficult): https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c?i=Q5&o...

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