[ddj] Conspiracy Theories as network graphs

Tue Apr 22 11:57:55 UTC 2014

More scary than entertaining i must say. İ like to think i have a healthy scepticism towards conspiracy theories but there is a saying in turkish that goes there's no smoke where there is no fire. İ hope the meaning comes across.

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> On 22 Apr 2014, at 00:29, Marcelo Träsel <marcelo.trasel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, I don't know if that's data journalism, but it sure is entertaining!
> 
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> 2014-04-20 16:35 GMT-03:00 Marko Plahuta <vito.solipsy at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> I'm not sure if this is really data journalism, but I text-mined many
>> books and Internet sources, and managed to visualize relationships
>> between actors in five different conspiracy theories: American deep
>> state (JFK/911), Illuminati, Antigravity drive, Flight 370 and
>> Chemtrails.
>> You can view it here:
>> http://virostatiq.com/data-visualizations/conspiracy-theory-explorer
>> More here: http://virostatiq.com/conspiracy-theories-network-graphs-antigravity-jfk-911-chemtrails-visualized
>> I'm interested in any comments.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Marko
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