{"id":66290,"date":"2014-02-06T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=66290"},"modified":"2014-02-07T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T15:35:47","slug":"visualize-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/06\/visualize-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualize It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-6.01.42-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-66292\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-02-06 at 6.01.42 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-6.01.42-PM-1024x819.png\" width=\"601\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-6.01.42-PM-1024x819.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-6.01.42-PM-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-6.01.42-PM.png 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Ed Summers, who writes code for libraries\u2014the Library of Congress among them\u2014and who has generated this <a href=\"http:\/\/edsu.github.io\/parisreview\" target=\"_blank\">impressive visualization<\/a> of authors, their <em>Paris Review <\/em>interviews, and their links to one another. More specifically, this charts the way our interviews interact with Wikipedia\u2014that is, which Wikipedia articles cite our interviews. As you can see, it\u2019s \u2026 complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Ed has written about his methods <a href=\"http:\/\/inkdroid.org\/journal\/2014\/02\/02\/paris-review-interviews-and-wikipedia\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Apparently all but forty of our interviews are linked to Wikipedia in some capacity. From this I can only infer that we\u2019re headed inexorably toward a state of total Internet domination, and that anyone who stands in our way will be crushed under the weight of our burgeoning link-connection-web-computer-sphere-thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Ed Summers, who writes code for libraries\u2014the Library of Congress among them\u2014and who has generated this impressive visualization of authors, their Paris Review interviews, and their links to one another. 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