Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas

(tomesphere.com)

28 points by leonickson16 hours ago

3 comments

  • murkt54 minutes ago
    I remember similar kind of visualization from a decade ago, called paperscape. Looked cool, worked on clustering using citations and references.<p>Never got any idea on any use case that would be covered by such visualizations, apart from looking cool.
    • leonickson0 minutes ago
      Hello, I agree with you, viz are just cool and might not really have a usecase. In this project map is not the product, it is 1 of 4 parts and to be honest the least important. The value is what is under each dot, the enriched page (TLDR, genes&#x2F;drugs&#x2F;diseases, trials, protein structures, code, datasets, full text, images, reviews, etc) and the MCP for agents. You can ignore the map entirely and just use the pages or extension or MCP.
    • gavinray23 minutes ago
      ResearchRabbit is free and has this feature!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchrabbit.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchrabbit.ai&#x2F;</a><p>ConnectedPapers also has this but they started to limit unless you pay:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.connectedpapers.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.connectedpapers.com&#x2F;</a><p>A few other ones I know of:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litmaps.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litmaps.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;consensus.app&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;citation-graph&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;consensus.app&#x2F;home&#x2F;features&#x2F;citation-graph&#x2F;</a>
    • addycb52 minutes ago
      That&#x27;s usually the case with graph visualizations or clustering for networks, imo (beyond revealing obvious statistics(
      • specproc33 minutes ago
        I love them! It&#x27;s a really nice, fun way to explore a corpus. Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve never had a client or stakeholder show any interest in using one, beyond an initial &quot;that&#x27;s cool&quot;.<p>And UMAP etc., is just as much an art as a science. You&#x27;ll go mad trying to get the perfect layout.<p>Great toy if you&#x27;re into that sort of thing, but yeah, fiddly and overwhelming for most.
  • gavinray52 minutes ago
    Neat! Two questions I had after using it:<p>1) Is there a way to filter the visual atlas by the search term? For instance, I searched &quot;ribosome&quot; and it gave me a list, but I couldn&#x27;t seem to visualize the list<p>2) I notice there&#x27;s an MCP tool. I&#x27;ve used <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paperclip.gxl.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paperclip.gxl.ai&#x2F;</a> in the past to good effect, curious if there are any standout features from tomesphere?