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Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by garysieling »

neurocroc wrote: post #48
garysieling wrote: post #47

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I've had pretty good success crowdsourcing recommendations for https://www.findlectures.com by asking offering a weekly email of talks, and prompting people for recommended speakers / conferences on sign-up. I have a separate form on the site to get suggestions, but the email signup one has better quality because it weed out people who want to spam the site with their own content.

Hey Gary, I love what you have done with find lectures. I use it quite often actually to find material. I am thinking of perhaps making a newsletter for this project saying 'what is new' in the mind map. What do you think?

Yeah, I think that would be interesting. Let me know if you make one!

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by garysieling »

neurocroc wrote: post #46
garysieling wrote: post #45

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Have you explored taking links from Wikipedia and adding them into your visualization? It might be interesting considering most articles have resources at the bottom.

I do link to wikipedia articles on nearly all nodes. I just expand it with more learning resources after. I think wikipedia is always a great starting point for learning about any subject. Or you meant something else?

I meant crawling wikipedia to add nodes automatically

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by noobiemcfoob »

bane wrote: post #19

Mind maps are interesting tools, and even overlapping mind maps can be useful ways of showing where multiple sources of understanding can work together...but I feel like this is just arriving at semantic graphs again. And those graphs are already very well trod.

You're not wrong by virtue of mind maps being an applied graph, but the motivations for the edges and clustering is meant to mimic the architecture of human memory as we understand it. A proper mind map can represent abstract and disjoint relationships between concepts using these tools. We can organize data into lists and tables of content, but that's not actually how humans process it.

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by neurocroc »

garysieling wrote: post #52
neurocroc wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do link to wikipedia articles on nearly all nodes. I just expand it with more learning resources after. I think wikipedia is always a great starting point for learning about any subject. Or you meant something else?

I meant crawling wikipedia to add nodes automatically

Oh I see. I think something like this has been done before and the results are usually messy. Although I do want to use algorithms and curate things in a more 'smart' way that I do now. A bonus point of doing it by hand is that I take in the time to understand the topic for myself and actually understand why that node goes there and not in some other place.

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by gr__or »

I worked on something similar a while ago. First I also looked into building something more visual/map like but after many iterations I got frustrated by the lack of overview one had for more complex maps. So I pivoted to a more TOC/text based version. It was supposed to be community driven but when I finished my studies, the app lost the utility it once had to me. But it's still up & running:

https://owleo.herokuapp.com/concepts Source: https://github.com/Gregoor/owleo

A startup that also takes the visual learning map route is Expii: https://www.expii.com/

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by neurocroc »

garysieling wrote: post #51
neurocroc wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Gary, I love what you have done with find lectures. I use it quite often actually to find material. I am thinking of perhaps making a newsletter for this project saying 'what is new' in the mind map. What do you think?

Yeah, I think that would be interesting. Let me know if you make one!

I did. :)

Here it is (bit.ly/learn-anything-letter).

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by ankushnarula »

neurocroc wrote: post #24
diziet wrote: post #16

In 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've created a significance map of your own conception of these subjects. It is, afterall, a mind map.

On a side note, I would subdivide Philosophy into Epistemology, Ethics, Naturalism, and Phenomenology and reclassify/reassociate accordingly.

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by tgb »

_6cj7 wrote: post #15

This looks similar to https://metacademy.org . I am curious how these maps are built and how resources are being selected (methodology-wise)?

Thanks for that link - it happens to have information at the intersection of several of my interests.

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by garysieling »

neurocroc wrote: post #56
garysieling wrote: post #51

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Yeah, I think that would be interesting. Let me know if you make one!

I did. :) Here it is (bit.ly/learn-anything-letter).

Signed up! I'll be interested to see how the Patreon thing goes as well.

Re: Interactive Mind Map for learning

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Post by JakiesKonto »

diziet wrote: post #16

In 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…

Im using mind maps since 13 years a lot and i think they're great for organizing information, learning things or keeping track of things, just needs 2 be done right.
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