⛓️‍💥 Word Chains

Exploring word definition networks, i.e: how do words used in other word's definitions create a network.
Read the blog post.

How to use

• use generate_chains.py to create the chains.js file (or just grab it from data/chains.js)
  • you'll need to install the Wn package
• use solveNetwork.html to visualise a network using physics (and export it)
• use visualiseNetwork.html to visualise a pre-computed network

Inside the data/ folder you will find:

• chains.js: pre-computed nodes and edges
• largeNetwork.js: pre-computed network of 5839 nodes and 10000 edges
• smallNetwork.js: pre-computed network of ~1000 nodes

Notes

• solveNetwork.html is currently limiting the number of edges to 10000, feel free to change
• visualiseNetwork.html is setting physics and improvedLayout to true; set these to false if visualising the large network.