Want:
• Scrape popular self-referential blogs (, LessWrong sequences, , maybe ?)
• For each, construct dependency graph: what old posts do new posts reference? Simplify by hand
Find guiding abstractions. May suggest entry points for new readers
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Completely unsurprisingly if you've read a bunch of , but if you just count the number of self-referential links on then "A Big Little Idea Called Legibility" comes out on top by far!
Haven't done dependency graph yet which may be more interesting. Raw counts:
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Well, here is a few hour attempt at visualizing 's blog post dependency graph:
• Note how central the legibility post is! Even Gervais Principle pales in comparison.
• Orange is , blue is . As you might expect, they don't cite each other much!
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would love to fork that example and have a go at drawing the blog post citation graph
would be swell if were to publish the script and/or dataset in a github repo 🗃 💡
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I’m all for it 🙂
Guest post open to anyone who does a revealing viz
My guess is that best viz would be long and skinny graph with time along long axis. For a chronological information set, time order and temporal distance of a citation are hugely informative.


