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24 alternatives to Connectography
Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apar
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Connectography launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Whimsical, hilarious and often downright terrifying
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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Take Risks, Defy the Status Quo, and Live Your Passions
2016 · its alternatives →
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An illustrated explanation, from Hardbound
2016 · its alternatives →
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OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…
Jul 2026 · globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io · its alternatives →
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Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of 21st century
2016 · its alternatives →
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A conversation about life's unseen patterns
2016 · its alternatives →
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A remarkable range of examples of visual thinkinking
2015 · its alternatives →
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An urban transformation is underway
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An attempt to live life as if global society collapsed
2015 · its alternatives →
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What can data tell us about how ideas flow through networks?
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