I love them! It'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.
That said, I've never had a client or stakeholder show any interest in using one, beyond an initial "that's cool".
And UMAP etc., is just as much an art as a science. You'll go mad trying to get the perfect layout.
Great toy if you're into that sort of thing, but yeah, fiddly and overwhelming for most.
1) Is there a way to filter the visual atlas by the search term? For instance, I searched "ribosome" and it gave me a list, but I couldn't seem to visualize the list
2) I notice there's an MCP tool. I've used https://paperclip.gxl.ai/ in the past to good effect, curious if there are any standout features from tomesphere?
I remember similar kind of visualization from a decade ago, called paperscape. Looked cool, worked on clustering using citations and references.
Never got any idea on any use case that would be covered by such visualizations, apart from looking cool.
ResearchRabbit is free and has this feature!
https://www.researchrabbit.ai/
ConnectedPapers also has this but they started to limit unless you pay:
https://www.connectedpapers.com/
A few other ones I know of:
https://litmaps.com
https://consensus.app/home/features/citation-graph/
That's usually the case with graph visualizations or clustering for networks, imo (beyond revealing obvious statistics(
I love them! It'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.
That said, I've never had a client or stakeholder show any interest in using one, beyond an initial "that's cool".
And UMAP etc., is just as much an art as a science. You'll go mad trying to get the perfect layout.
Great toy if you're into that sort of thing, but yeah, fiddly and overwhelming for most.
Neat! Two questions I had after using it:
1) Is there a way to filter the visual atlas by the search term? For instance, I searched "ribosome" and it gave me a list, but I couldn't seem to visualize the list
2) I notice there's an MCP tool. I've used https://paperclip.gxl.ai/ in the past to good effect, curious if there are any standout features from tomesphere?