After reviewing Flourish and its uses, I was pretty interested in how the tool could be used to connect the different types of authors and publications to one another. There are so many authors who were writing different types of works who were connected to each other, as was shown in the network map.
Hovering over a single point highlights every other author they are associated with in the works.
Using flourish, we can also set the thickness of the links connecting the authors. In this case we set the thickness to be thicker the higher the weight, or how many times two authors were mentioned together. This led me to the question: How can we use the different features provided by Flourish to predict trends in writing?
We were able to set the thickness of the connections to be thicker the more times authors were mentioned together. This feature allows us to map out which authors discuss similar topics in their writings and how likely they are to write regarding each other, be It different forms of writing.
Sid,
I liked how you focused on a completely different aspect of Flourish that I haven’t even thought of. Looking through the thickness of each line can provide even more connections between different authors. It’s interesting to think about the different ways that this software can allow for many connections. Amazing !