Visualizing Cross References and Social Networks
Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon has produced several spectacular visualizations using Bible data.
First, he created a visualization of cross references in the Bible, showing off the many interconnections between chapters in the Bible. Credit goes to Christoph Römhild for the cross-reference data.
Second, he developed a social-network diagram that reflects co-occurrences of names in Bible verses. Though he doesn’t disambiguate between different people with the same name, it’s still fascinating to look at.
Third, he made a visual distribution graph of names in the Bible.
Our efforts at visualizing similar data now pale in comparison. Thanks, Chris, for making these great visualizations!






January 24th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
It is time for the blog of the week. This week’s blog is the ESV Bible Blog. I chose this blog this week because of an interesting post from today where they link to a website that provides a visual for all of the cross-references in…
January 25th, 2008 at 7:39 am
A wonderful visualization of the cross-references in the Bible. This guy has lots of other excellent visualizations (eg Internet Map). [via ESV Bible Blog]
January 25th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Visualization of cross references in the Bible
January 25th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I have a link you’ve got to check out! Because he explicitly…
January 30th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Okay, I’m basically riffing on some neat stuff posted on a couple other blogs. First, the ESV blog has this interesting entry on Visualizing Cross References and Social Networks which draws on a blog entry by Chris Harrison on…