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by ranie93 2557 days ago
What does the y-axis represent? For example, why does Behaviorism seem to have a bulge around the 1930s?
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Very roughly the space of ideas. For the paradigms it is meant for when they were trending.

"Moving from left to right, the map is read in a roughly historical fashion, but not literally, as we are compressing a n-dimensional intellectual space into a two dimensional map grid."

Thanks! Maybe an area chart could show their relative popularities over time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_chart)

I look forward to your future developments, this is really cool. I think some interactions with the diagram would be neat, for example clicking a bubble taking you to the corresponding Wikipedia article