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		<title>Vast Collection Of Bibical Names Represented As A Constellated Network</title>
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Visualizer Chris Harrison feeds the names of people and places in the bible (i.e. the collections of canonical religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity) to make these cross-referenced networks. This is a close-up, you can see the full visualization beneath the fold:
Click to see the medium-sized version (1.4 MB):

Harrison says:
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<p>Visualizer Chris Harrison feeds the names of people and places in the bible (i.e. the collections of canonical religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity) to make these <a href="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/bibleviz/index.html" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.chrisharrison.net/projects/bibleviz/index.html?referer=');">cross-referenced networks</a>. This is a close-up, you can see the full visualization beneath the fold:</p>
<p><span id="more-49"></span>Click to see the medium-sized version (1.4 MB):</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flapdoodle.org/bibleviz/BibleNetworkmediumOrig.jpg" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flapdoodle.org/bibleviz/BibleNetworkmediumOrig.jpg?referer=');"><img src="http://chinscratcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/biblenetworkmediumorig.jpg" alt="biblenetworkmediumorig.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>Harrison says:</p>
<blockquote><p>I set out to derive a new data set from the Bible, one that would capture relationships between people and places &#8211; essentially a biblical social network. The first thing I had to do was build a list of biblical names &#8211; Wikipedia already had a comprehensive one (2619 names!). Using this list, I parsed the text of the King James Bible. When two names occurred in the same verse, a connection between those two entities was created. To make this information visually meaningful, I ran the network of connections through my <a href="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/wikiviz/index.html" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.chrisharrison.net/projects/wikiviz/index.html?referer=');">WikiViz</a> engine, which caused highly connected groups of entities to coalesce. I through it would be fitting to render the visualization using an &#8220;old world&#8221; color scheme.</p></blockquote>
<p>He also has a number of other biblical visualization in his <a href="http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/bibleviz/index.html" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.chrisharrison.net/projects/bibleviz/index.html?referer=');">collection of Web pages hosted on the Internet</a>.</p>
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