Ciro Cattuto wrote a simple piece of code that builds and visualizes a network of inferred semantic relations among the tags that Flickr users attach to their photos.
LGL is a compendium of applications for making the visualization of large networks and trees tractable. LGL was specifically motivated by the need to make the visualization and exploration of large biological networks more accessible.
M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury
Scientists often re-invent things which were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain experimental data on the sizes of biological genera, collected by Willis. We estimate that scientists are busy re-discovering America about 2/3 of time.
R. Kumar, J. Novak, and A. Tomkins. KDD '06: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, page 611--617. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2006)
R. Baeza-Yates, and A. Tiberi. KDD '07: Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, page 76--85. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)