He had already done considerable work visualizing the data before contacting me. Together, we struggled to find an elegant solution to render the data, more than 63, cross references in total. As work progressed, it became clear that an interactive visualization would be needed to properly explore the data, where users could zoom in and prune down the information to manageable levels.
However, this was less interesting to us, as several Bible-exploration programs existed that offered similar functionality and much more. Instead we set our sights on the other end of the spectrum —- something more beautiful than functional.
At the same time, we wanted something that honored and revealed the complexity of the data at every level —- as one leans in, smaller details should become visible. This ultimately led us to the multi-colored arc diagram you see below.
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The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters in the Bible. Books alternate in color between white and light gray. The length of each bar denotes the number of verses in the chapter. Each of the 63, cross references found in the Bible is depicted by a single arc - the color corresponds to the distance between the two chapters, creating a rainbow-like effect.
This time 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 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. Entities with less than 40 connections are drawn at an angle.
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Could you please help me tell me how you have achieved the following effect? First, in your implementation, when a chapter is selected on the dashboard, all the chapters in the same book are highlighted and the book instead of the selected chapter is used as a filter for the arcs, how did you achieve this effect?
Is there some aggregation? Second, how to keep the rest of the arcs in the view and dimmed while the arcs corresponding to the book including the selected chapter are highlighted? Usually, when a filter is used only those match the filter will be there in the view and the rest will disappear. How do you keep all of them and highlight the ones match the filter?
Could you explain how path range bin and arc works? Also why we have to put filter for SUM number of records and radius copy?
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Also I tried to build the arcs sheet myself. The path range bin is a way to add points in between the ends of each line for use in calculating the arcs. You can learn more about how to do this by studying this blog post: The filters for number of records and radius are just ways to reduce the data points to the most meaningful ones so the visualization can load in a reasonable amount of time on the web.
I would like to see some one build an inter active schematic based on this idea. If the the Linux software kernel has an interactive map over at http: Variations Large and Small It seems others have had the same thought. This visualization is not compatible with your screen size. How Is This Useful?
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