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Paul Graham's Essays Visualized as Infographic Series

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29 points by markvitals 6 years ago · 9 comments

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nose4job 6 years ago

What was the criteria for choosing which essays to visualize? I don't see a lot of his popular one...

  • markvitalsOP 6 years ago

    We only pick the one that have a structure that is easy to visualize. Which usually looks like headings and sub-headings or a list of things.

pitbitbuck 6 years ago

I don't see a lot of his essays here... Did I miss something?

alexzender 6 years ago

lots of work and many facts, wow. Do you do the analysis manually or extract the facts somehow automatically?

  • markvitalsOP 6 years ago

    All the work was done manually. We just selected those essays which has a structure, summarized either in bullet points or headings. We edited each fact, reducing text, because with icon you don't need as much text. Regarding automation I experimented with text extraction (using abstractive text summarization) but haven't got good results yet.

    • alexzender 6 years ago

      Understood, thanks. The "Where Are The Big Ideas" is my favourite.

      • markvitalsOP 6 years ago

        Nice, the infographic is loosely based on his essay "Schlep Blindness". I recommend to read the original essay as well

        "How to hold a program in once head" - is my favorite one.

        • alexzender 6 years ago

          > ordinary programmers working in typical office conditions never really understand the problems they're solving

          Cannot agree more

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