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Joseph DiCastro is the brilliant mind behind VisualzingSEP.com, a mesmerizing visual search engine of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I mean, check it out - visualizingsep.com/#/entries/aristotle 🤤
Joe is also freelance software engineer specializing in database application development and interactive data visualizations. Learn more about Joe: josephdicastrollc.com
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00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Overview of the Graph View in Visualizing SEP
01:29 - Why they’re starting with Bertrand Russell’s article
01:54 - The two main graphs in Visualizing SEP
02:16 - One of the reasons why Nick wanted to have Joe in the LYT House
02:58 - What makes Visualizing SEP so cool
07:37 - The coolest thing that this graph can do
09:14 - The default mode of the graph
10:15 - Another quick thing you can do
10:54 - How to pop the article details data for a particular article
12:25 - It’s all about context
14:53 - Learning more specific things about your topic with Visualizing SEP
17:07 - On building intuitive moments so you can explore it in an infinite number of ways
21:27 - On having diverse perspectives
22:09 - A use case for backlinking and referencing
23:26 - How all the articles are being reviewed
24:50 - An example on how the bi-directional linking of Visualizing SEP isn’t yet perfect but how it can still be helpful
26:03 - Primary domains
27:11 - How Joe created the primary domains on the right side of the Visualizing SEP
29:15 - How many articles that Joe categorized
30:21 - The domain graph
31:29 - How to interpret the graph once it loads
32:51 - How the labels of the nodes are organized
33:37 - The list of all articles for a particular domain
34:10 - How to see where a particular article lives within a domain network like a laser beam
35:11 - The recent searches button
35:39 - Using the color scheme to find a group of domains
37:17 - What it means to search articles within all of the text
38:22 - One thing to take note when using the text search
39:50 - On how often this is being updated
40:40 - How people can reach out to Joe?
41:10 - Start of Q&A
41:26 - How has using visualizing step changed your workflow the way you think?
42:11 - A metaphor on how Visualizing SEP can impact our thinking
45:01 - Now that this resource exists, how easy/hard would it be to create similar tools for other sets of interlinked documents, such as a person’s PKM or even all of Wikipedia?
46:21 - How the relationships of these linked notes are formed
48:42 - How the links are generated
50:38 - How Visualizing SEP is opening the possibilities for others to solve more meaningful personal knowledge
53:10 - Why Joe loves to lose to an argument
54:47 - Joe’s final thoughts about Visualizing SEP
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📖 READ: medium.com/@nickmilo22/my-pkm-story-3763985b7a3e
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Joseph DiCastro is the brilliant mind behind VisualzingSEP.com, a mesmerizing visual search engine of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I mean, check it out - visualizingsep.com/#/entries/aristotle 🤤
Joe is also freelance software engineer specializing in database application development and interactive data visualizations. Learn more about Joe: josephdicastrollc.com
🔆 Free Weekly Creative Productivity Insights: linkingyourthinking.com/learn-more-now?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lyt_house_episode_6
🚀 MASTER OBSIDIAN: linkingyourthinking.com/obsidian-flight-school?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lyt_house_episode_6
🗺 MASTER KNOWLEDGE: linkingyourthinking.com/workshop?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lyt_house_episode_6
🌌 GET IDEAVERSE (Formerly the LYT Kit): linkingyourthinking.com/join/ideaverse-lite?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lyt_house_episode_6
📚 MASTER READING: linkingyourthinking.com/how-to-work-a-book?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lyt_house_episode_6
📺 SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL » youtube.com/channel/UC85D7ERwhke7wVqskV_DZUA?sub_confirmation=1
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Overview of the Graph View in Visualizing SEP
01:29 - Why they’re starting with Bertrand Russell’s article
01:54 - The two main graphs in Visualizing SEP
02:16 - One of the reasons why Nick wanted to have Joe in the LYT House
02:58 - What makes Visualizing SEP so cool
07:37 - The coolest thing that this graph can do
09:14 - The default mode of the graph
10:15 - Another quick thing you can do
10:54 - How to pop the article details data for a particular article
12:25 - It’s all about context
14:53 - Learning more specific things about your topic with Visualizing SEP
17:07 - On building intuitive moments so you can explore it in an infinite number of ways
21:27 - On having diverse perspectives
22:09 - A use case for backlinking and referencing
23:26 - How all the articles are being reviewed
24:50 - An example on how the bi-directional linking of Visualizing SEP isn’t yet perfect but how it can still be helpful
26:03 - Primary domains
27:11 - How Joe created the primary domains on the right side of the Visualizing SEP
29:15 - How many articles that Joe categorized
30:21 - The domain graph
31:29 - How to interpret the graph once it loads
32:51 - How the labels of the nodes are organized
33:37 - The list of all articles for a particular domain
34:10 - How to see where a particular article lives within a domain network like a laser beam
35:11 - The recent searches button
35:39 - Using the color scheme to find a group of domains
37:17 - What it means to search articles within all of the text
38:22 - One thing to take note when using the text search
39:50 - On how often this is being updated
40:40 - How people can reach out to Joe?
41:10 - Start of Q&A
41:26 - How has using visualizing step changed your workflow the way you think?
42:11 - A metaphor on how Visualizing SEP can impact our thinking
45:01 - Now that this resource exists, how easy/hard would it be to create similar tools for other sets of interlinked documents, such as a person’s PKM or even all of Wikipedia?
46:21 - How the relationships of these linked notes are formed
48:42 - How the links are generated
50:38 - How Visualizing SEP is opening the possibilities for others to solve more meaningful personal knowledge
53:10 - Why Joe loves to lose to an argument
54:47 - Joe’s final thoughts about Visualizing SEP
🐦 TWEET: twitter.com/NickMilo
📖 READ: medium.com/@nickmilo22/my-pkm-story-3763985b7a3e
🎬 LEARN OBSIDIAN: youtu.be/QgbLb6QCK88
🗿 DOWNLOAD OBSIDIAN: https://obsidian.md/
📩 EMAIL: support@linkingyourthinking.com
🖼 SOURCES/BROLL:
🏷 TAGS: #Obsidian #obsidianapp #Obsidiannotetakingapp #LinkingYourThinking
