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24 alternatives to Open Syllabus Explorer

Interactive map of the top 10,000 texts used in academic

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open Syllabus Explorer launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Open Syllabus▲90
Mapping the college curriculum across 7M+ syllabi
2021 · opensyllabus.org · its alternatives →
2
I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o▲285
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 →
3
Map of the Internet▲83
Journey through/over/across the world wide web by Quartz
2016 · qz.com · its alternatives →
4
College Scorecard▲127
White House powered open database for exploring US colleges
2015 · collegescorecard.ed.gov · its alternatives →
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Cited▲98
Dynamic map content to virtually any platform
2015 · its alternatives →
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Classroom▲208
Learning management tool by Google
2014 · edu.google.com · its alternatives →
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An interactive map of the 1M most-assigned books in college syllabi▲21
The citation graph of the ~1M most-assigned books and articles (node2vec -> UMAP).
2021 · galaxy.opensyllabus.org · its alternatives →
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The up-goer five text editor▲64
A tool to track your use of the top 1000 most popular words
2016 · splasho.com · its alternatives →
9
Wikiverse▲119
An interactive galaxy of Wikipedia knowledge ✨
2016 · wikiverse.io · its alternatives →
10
ExplainToMe▲182
Automatic web article summarizer
2016 · explaintome.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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Schoolzilla▲68
Making data useful for schools
2014 · its alternatives →
12
Open Syllabus Project▲2
The largest databases of college course syllabi in the world
2020 · opensyllabus.org · its alternatives →
13
10,000ft Insights▲81
Shared visualizations of content, ideas, and decisions
2015 · 10000ft.com · its alternatives →
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Allclasses▲81
Search thousands of local and online classes (iOS)
2014 · allclasses.com · its alternatives →
15
Terminology▲126
A comprehensive research tool for words
2017 · agiletortoise.com · its alternatives →
16
Product Management Journal▲83
The leading reference for technology-based products
2016 · productfocus.com · its alternatives →
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Transtutors▲114
Internet’s largest academic Q&A database
2016 · transtutors.com · its alternatives →
18
Teech▲73
24/7 Unlimited help from the world's best students
2016 · its alternatives →
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Scribd Audiobooks▲97
Unlimited access to 30,000 audiobooks
2014 · scribd.com · its alternatives →
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Open University Data▲83
Data driven approach to university selection
2017 · its alternatives →
21
Word Lens▲83
See the world in your language
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Information is Beautiful▲102
Ideas, issues, knowledge, data — visualized!
2015 · informationisbeautiful.net · its alternatives →
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Volley▲71
Understand and learn the world's academic knowledge
2016 · its alternatives →
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&what;▲75
interactive reference of 14,500 HTML character entities
2015 · amp-what.com · its alternatives →

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