Mike Love

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Really simple Freebase interface in JavaScript (4/22/08)

Genealogy of Influence is an open dataset of peer and influence links between historic figures. I started working on this project in the summer of 2005.

Graphviz layout: PDF 450kb - DOT 90kb

In July 2007, I added the data to Freebase where others have added new people and connections. It now includes more than 3100 figures. You can explore by clicking on one of the applications below, or going to the Influence domain at Freebase.

Recent additions:

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+ $person.name added $person.type.link.timestamp
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Applications:

Random Walk

Random Walk with Wikipedia frame

Applications written by others:

License:

Genealogy of Influence is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License
.
Wikipedia content is under the GFDL

Older versions:

Touchgraph applet

created using Touchgraph (xml data)

PDF of the hierarchical layout

created using yEd (graphml data)