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Cosmograph is wonderful, I did try it, but because of its license restriction I could not use it for this project. I do agree that beyond an initial \"that's cool\" this map may not contribute much, \"and that's why I didn't make it the main product. I already had the data as I was building other things (extension, paper page) and wanted a bit of a cool factor so people would take a look at the", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing corpus maps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas"}, {"id": 781608112, "item_id": 48850507, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850507", "by": "specproc", "date": "2026-07-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast.", "excerpt": "I love them! It's a really nice, fun way to explore a corpus. Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast. That said, I've never had a client or stakeholder show any interest in using one, beyond an initial \"that's cool\". And UMAP etc., is just as much an art as a science. You'll go mad trying to get the perfect layout. 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Cosmograph is wonderful, I did try it, but because of its license restriction I could not use it for this project. I do agree that beyond an initial \"that's cool\" this map may not contribute much, \"and that's why I didn't make it the main product. I already had the data as I was building other things (extension, paper page) and wanted a bit of a cool factor so people would take a look at the", "context": "", "use_case": "visualizing corpus maps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas"}, {"id": 781608112, "item_id": 48850507, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850507", "by": "specproc", "date": "2026-07-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast.", "excerpt": "I love them! It's a really nice, fun way to explore a corpus. 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