Robert Lesser

The D3 Github Network, 2013 - 2021

Most roads lead to Philosophy

Networks

Love you code, but it's a bit weird that when I try to change Philosophy to another keyword, it still runs to philosophy. I already changed all the "philosophy" in the code to "personality". It still gives me philosophy output.

Esther Yang

Thanks Esther! The reason for that is actually due to wikipedia, not the code. When you click on the first link in a wikipedia article repeatedly, you eventually reach the article for philosophy. See here for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

So changing the instances of "Philosophy" to other words might change the visual appearance of the network (i.e. which words get highlighted), but it won't change the underlying algorithm. Let me know if you have other questions about it

I see! gotcha! thank you so much for the explanation!

Hmm.. weird the page stop working. It ends at word, fact, now?

Yea, this sometimes happens. On 12/17 someone edited the Fact wikipedia article to include a link to the Truth article first: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fact&action=history. This effectively broke the chain, as the Truth article links first to Fact. 

Normally such changes get reverted after a short amount of time, as recursive definitions are discouraged.