What if Newton was doing Facebook? "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon" visualizing the connection of historical figures

"Actor'sKevin BaconPeople who have co-starred with "Kevin · Bacon numberIt is said that most of Hollywood actors will fit Kevin · Bacon number 3 to 4 as one who has co-starred with one of Kevin · Bacon number 1 "Kevin · Bacon number 2", but, this"The sixth gap"Based on the hypothesis hypothesis, I visualized the relationships of historical figures who played an active part from 1500 to 1700 is"Six Degrees of Francis Bacon"is. It looks like a medieval version of Facebook, so you can easily search things like "Was there connection to Newton and Shakespeare?"

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/

This is the website. At first it was a philosopher'sFrancis Bacon, Francis · Bacon information on the left side of the screen, Francis · Bacon in the middle and connections with people are displayed.


When I click on the light blue icon written as Francis Bacon, the gray dots that were full of ambience disappeared.


Click on the waterdrop icon on the right side of the screen to see details about the type of dot. Colored dots mean primary ties, meaning "direct friends", gray dots indicate secondary connections, that is, "friends of friends". Also, the colored dots indicate that the cooler the colored, the stronger the connection with the central figure.


For example, as a person directly connected with Francis BaconElizabeth IThere is.


Clicking on Blue Dot of Elizabeth I will show "Friend's Friends" for Francis Bacon who mediated Elizabeth I.


Among them, when you double click on a person named John Howard ......


This time we will see a primary connection and a secondary connection, centering on John Howard. With this feeling, we can confirm the existence of connections more and more from person to person.


In Six Degrees of Francis Bacon you can check the relationship between two people in history. Select "Network" at the left end of the screen and select "William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare) "Is entered, the candidate is displayed, so click.


When you press "Find" ......


William Shakespeare's friendship relationship was displayed. Because Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is still in beta version and the amount of information is not enough, in the case of Shakespeare only the primary connection was displayed.


further"Isaac NewtonDo you have a connection to Shakespeare? So I will check it.


Unfortunately we can not find a connection. Compared to Shakespeare, Newton's not connected is conspicuous.


By the way, I saw Shakespeare meeting Elizabeth I in the movie, but I thought that it was fiction, I examined the relationship between the two. When you press "Find" ......


"There are over 100 nodes and it can not be displayed so please choose an option" appears. Click "Refine Search".


Since it is possible to adjust the height of the possibility of the connection with "RELATIONSHIP CONFIDENCE LEVEL", change it from the default 60% to 80%. In addition, 60% seems to be about "the possibility of convincing connection".


Then, Elizabeth I in the lower left of the screen, Shakespeare's name on the upper right, I could see a strong connection.


It was in the middleJames I of the world. It seems that Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare were connected via James I.


Six Degrees of Francis Bacon was created by Carnegie Mellon University and Georgetown University in cooperation.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford English name)Based on 62 million words on the map, we map "Who knows who" from 1500 to 1700, and at this time it is mapping the history of 13,000 people It is designed to display data and about 200,000 relationships.