Am I the only one that when I click on anything, the image just zooms and there's no link?
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Interactive Mind Map for learning
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Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning
#22In my opinion, Mind Maps are not great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things. Notice how the Github read-me itself is formed like a Table of Contents. Table of Contents (or other organized lists) are better for organizing your information and placing it in thematically similar topics, etc. In cases where you're presenting or recalling information, the more linear narrative of a Table…
I agree with your opinion referring to Mind Maps as is. However, I do think there's a non-linear representation schema becoming more available accordingly with VR growth.
Given how rapidly x+y values for mind-maps increase alongside content complexity for any one 'abstraction level'; constraints like screen space and uni-dimensional view-points for hierarchies come into play. It would be nice to easily see how core skills connect to different disciplines, say. Then again, side-stepping this by using different kinds of connections/views for nodes across levels may have an exponential maintenance curve. It reminds me of that old/strange hyper-connected theory for Internet infrastructure I can't remember the name of.
I'm keen to think of new methods for map-building since I find them personally useful, but I wonder if I suffer from the hammer-nail bias.
Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning
#23In my opinion, Mind Maps are not great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things. Notice how the Github read-me itself is formed like a Table of Contents. Table of Contents (or other organized lists) are better for organizing your information and placing it in thematically similar topics, etc. In cases where you're presenting or recalling information, the more linear narrative of a Table…
Mind maps are great for recalling terminology hierarchies (for the lack of better word). I have not used them much in my engineering studies but I have taken some courses in history and philosophy where I often had to recall lots of terminology related to, for example, certain time periods or philosophical theories. The spatial aspect of a mind map really helps me. Just drawing the map is usually enough for me to rem…
requires that I draw the map myself by hand
And this is the secret. It doesn't much matter if you use tables or bullet lists or mind maps or whatever makes sense to you for the particular domain, it's the fact that you are organizing the info in your own brain that matters.
From a teacher-student perspective, mind maps seem to work best if the teacher presents the student with a partially-filled mind map and lets the students fill it in.
Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning
#24In my opinion, Mind Maps are not great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things. Notice how the Github read-me itself is formed like a Table of Contents. Table of Contents (or other organized lists) are better for organizing your information and placing it in thematically similar topics, etc. In cases where you're presenting or recalling information, the more linear narrative of a Table…
Author of the project here.
I do agree with you that mind maps have their flaws and limitations. But I found most curated list and most content in general to be quite rigid in structure. These mind maps should let the users explore and be guided through arrows.
And the big problem that I find is that google and other search engines are a black box. You have to know what you want to ask for to get an answer. The poses a big problem because many don't know what to ask.
Wikipedia is great too but I found it to lack in the visualisation aspect. Everything is connected but many people don't know exactly how and where and with what it is connected. These kinds of visualisations are very popular on the internet (https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap is one example) because they do bring clarity as to what it is the person doesn't know. However this repository although great, it just shows an image.
With these mind maps I can replicate the same but make it interactive. Now users can not only see what they don't know, but if they do want to learn it, they don't have to waste time online finding resources, they just click on a link and see what the best way of learning the topic is. If any questions arise when they are learning the content, then the search engine of their choice will answer these questions.
I also try to solve the problem of dependencies of knowledge. For example if user wants to learn 'machine learning'. I show that machine learning requires knowledge of statistics and linear algebra (http://i.imgur.com/A75JMNt.png) and then give links to the mind maps of both of these topics so user can learn them. There should be no wandering around and wasting time finding resources and being lost.
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#25This looks similar to https://metacademy.org . I am curious how these maps are built and how resources are being selected (methodology-wise)?
Author here. I was greatly inspired by this website. It was my goal to actually combine metacademy's idea of solving the dependency problems of knowledge and do it in a similar way but visually.
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#26This has been on my mind for a really long time and I'm trying to make basically the same thing except the focus would be on interactively building your own map rather than exploring others but now I got to see if I can add that to this rather than build my own.
If you do consider adding and improving this mind map, it would be amazing. Thank you for that. I want it to be a collaborative process where anyone can come in and propose a change.
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#27This looks similar to https://metacademy.org . I am curious how these maps are built and how resources are being selected (methodology-wise)?
Metacademy has been great to get me to ramp up for my course's material quickly. I hope such maps will properly evolve across domains. It seems like the web is a great way to discover the structure of these maps, but it takes more time than it could.
Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning
#28In my opinion, Mind Maps are not great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things. Notice how the Github read-me itself is formed like a Table of Contents. Table of Contents (or other organized lists) are better for organizing your information and placing it in thematically similar topics, etc. In cases where you're presenting or recalling information, the more linear narrative of a Table…
I find mind maps to be an excellent way working. I've tried wikis, org mode, plain text files. The mind map is fastest way of tidying up a mess for me and I found I usually don't have time for doing much more. It's either that or a text file. I'm just not going to put in any more work despite my good intentions. If I need to publish something then of course I will put it in a document.
If I'm learning about something or just debugging or designing then I'll use the mind map like a text file. I just type a paragraph and hit return. Each paragraph is a node but initially it's structurally no different than a text file - a list of paragraphs. The big advantage is that later I can take some of those nodes and put them under a sub-node. Its a great filtering tool, (filtering in the sense of signal to noise reduction). Maybe it's just because I am naturally so disorganised that I like it. Stuff comes out of my mind unstructured. I need a refactoring tool and I want one that's as lazy/easy as possible.
Some kind of an org-mode tool can work ok but I found it to be too slow to create links and embed images. Wikis are just too painful. At least in a mind map what you see is what you get and in fact the structure is right in your face (a bit like lisp).
Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning
#29In my opinion, Mind Maps are not great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things. Notice how the Github read-me itself is formed like a Table of Contents. Table of Contents (or other organized lists) are better for organizing your information and placing it in thematically similar topics, etc. In cases where you're presenting or recalling information, the more linear narrative of a Table…
I think Mindnapa are better for this. The information is associated. For example you will need maths for some fields. Table of contents would mean duplicating links.
But... I also agree that everyone learns and parses information differently.
Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning
#30In my opinion, Mind Maps are not great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things. Notice how the Github read-me itself is formed like a Table of Contents. Table of Contents (or other organized lists) are better for organizing your information and placing it in thematically similar topics, etc. In cases where you're presenting or recalling information, the more linear narrative of a Table…
Author of the project here. I do agree with you that mind maps have their flaws and limitations. But I found most curated list and most content in general to be quite rigid in structure. These mind maps should let the users explore and be guided through arrows. And the big problem that I find is that google and other search engines are a black box. You have to know what you want to ask for to get an answer. The poses…
You can also think of this project as an index of links similar to what Google has. Only instead, the index is human curated and it is an open canvas that all can explore.