Visualizing the Bible
No, this is not "Walk Through the Bible" 2.0. This is an amazing work of mapping the Bible in view of social networking. Chris Harrison is the creator of this amazing visual data set that cross-references the Bible for aesthetic, not just academic purposes. He also goes on to the narrative of the Bible mapping names and how they are interconnected. It reminds me of the "friendwheel" application on Facebook. He describes the scope of what he seeks to do in this way:
"I wanted to better capture the story, most notably the people and places, and the interactions between them. I did this by building a list of biblical names (2619 in total) and parsing a digital copy of the King James Bible. Each time two names occurred in the same verse, a connection was created between them. This produced essentially a social network of people and places. Because such relationships had no ordering or structure (unlike the cross references), I used a spatial clustering algorithm I developed for one of my other projects. This process causes related entities and highly connected groups to coalesce. I themed the output like an old piece of parchment."
There is a lot of amazing information to be observed. Check it out.
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