Remapping the world with word vectors

Posted on Sat 02 December 2017 • Tagged with natural language, dataviz, d3.js • 12 min read

Everyone is used to the map. Most people could make a reasonable attempt at drawing one from memory (well, sort of). But what would it look like if we positioned the countries not by geographical location, but by our own perceived relationships between them? Armed with Conceptnet Numberbatch, I decided to try just that.