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24 alternatives to Social Physics

What can data tell us about how ideas flow through networks?

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

1. 1
   ThinkUp▲166

   Powerful social network analytics

   2014 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Social Network Theory and Educational Change▲68

   Studies on how social networks can affect education reform

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Invisible Influence▲66

   The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4GB
   Graph-based notebook for data scientists and researchers▲171

   2018 · amie.ai · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Design of Influence: How to Craft Products that Move People▲93

   Use social psychology to design engaging digital experiences

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The evolution of the web▲94

   A data visualization about the growth of the web since 1990

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7IM
   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 →

8. 8
   Programming Languages Influence Network▲89

   Visualizing influence relations of programming languages

   2016 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Kooba▲141

   An interactive graph for finding new books

   2017 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Traity▲76

    Building the reputation graph of the world

    2014 · its alternatives →

11. 11KA
    Kooba, an interactive graph for finding new books▲145

    2017 · koob.jake.run · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Nordic Web▲146

    Data-driven analyses and deep reporting on Nordic startups

    2017 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Little Bets▲89

    How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Gum▲123

    The social network of things

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16LT
    Linkurious, the first data visualization platform for graph databases▲86

    2015 · linkurio.us · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter▲96

    How today's smartest businesses grow themselves

    2015 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Collaborative Intelligence▲65

    Collaboration across different modes of thinking

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Our World In Data▲102

    A web publication showcasing empirical research and data

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Lattice Engagement▲143

    Engagement surveys combined with performance data

    2018 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    The Idea Swap▲85

    The sticky note way of exchanging ideas

    2014 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Flow▲87

    The psychology of optimal experience

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23ND
    Network Dynamics Open Dataset – 2.5M Graphs and 38000 Networks (1TB)▲10

    2018 · dynamics.cs.washington.edu · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Social Selling▲64

    Techniques to influence buyers and changemakers

    2017 · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →