{"id":26,"date":"2007-08-31T08:47:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/08\/visualization-character-relationships-across-religions\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:16:51","slug":"visualization-character-relationships-across-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2007\/08\/visualization-character-relationships-across-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualization: Character Relationships across Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.similardiversity.net\/details.php\">SimilarDiversity.net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.similardiversity.net\/gfx\/sd800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2007-08-diversity.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" alt=\"A list of characters (\u2018Lord,\u2019 \u2018God\u2019, and \u2018You,\u2019 are the most prominent) runs along the bottom, with arcs connecting them.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This visualization, by Philipp Steinweber and Andreas Koller, comes from the textual analysis of different religions\u2019 holy books (red = Hinduism, yellow = Buddhism, green = Islam, blue = Judaism, purple = Christianity). Below each character is a list of verbs associated with him or her in each religion.<\/p>\n<p>Their intent is (presumably) to show the commonalities among the different religions; I\u2019m more interested in the technique behind the visualization itself. You could, for example, apply the technique to just the Bible and end up with a similar visualization. You could even do a similar color-coding, except with the Old and New Testaments.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/similar_diversity_holy_scriptures_analysis.html\">Infosthetics<\/a>, which has a few more examples of biblical visualizations in the comments. Tim Regan of Microsoft notes, \u201cThe whole area of abstract visualizations of books seems to be growing, and the bible seems to be a good testbed for these projects.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From SimilarDiversity.net: This visualization, by Philipp Steinweber and Andreas Koller, comes from the textual analysis of different religions\u2019 holy books (red = Hinduism, yellow = Buddhism, green = Islam, blue = Judaism, purple = Christianity). Below each character is a list of verbs associated with him or her in each religion. Their intent is (presumably) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}