[ddj] Conspiracy Theories as network graphs

Wed Apr 23 14:01:16 UTC 2014

Marko, I see you programmed this in D3. Could you shed some light on your
previous coding background/the difficulty this took you to code? I'm
interested in learning D3.

Thanks,

David

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Marko Plahuta <vito.solipsy at gmail.com>wrote:

> > More scary than entertaining i must say. ?
>
> Actually, I first intended to do this project in a more journalistic
> way: process several conspiracy theories, like tens of them, filter
> out all but the most important actors from them, then compare every
> one of them against every other and find out which entities are
> recurring.
> Then it would be interesting to find psychological or sociological
> explanations for the presence of these entities.
>
> For example, US Air Force is present in almost all conspiracy theories
> I read so far. It may be that US Air Force is most heavily funded and
> probably one of most secretive organizations on the planet, but
> there's also a psychological moment about something constantly being
> above you, watching you relentlessly. Something that will not fail to
> deliver a new surprise no matter what. In a way like a cargo cult.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marko
>
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