[motoboi]

I would love to have an ideas and people genealogy where you can select a thinker like Rousseau and have a graph of the main ideas in his works and their predecessors.

Think about his amour de soi. Did it existed previously anywhere else? Who talked about something similar earlier?

I'd die for something like that.

[johndbeatty]

I wanted something like this as well, and I have a prototype of something much simpler (using node2vec to generate embeddings using data from Wikidata and DBpedia (and Twitter)). It doesn't really do what you want, but you might find it interesting.

Rousseau: https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c Amour de soi: https://pov.is/e/82e9f674-ebbf-4c36-b225-ec1653ce3367

You can go backwards and forwards in time using by-year view (though missing data in Wikidata makes this a bit difficult): https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c?i=Q5&o...