Explanation of the symbols on the map

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acorn - comp.sys.acorn.hardware

amiga - comp.sys.amiga.hardware

booksEach white20 - rec.arts.books

cdrom - comp.publish.cdrom.hardware

compilers - comp.compilers

fuzzy - comp.ai.fuzzy

genetic - comp.ai.genetic

hp - comp.sys.hp.hardware

humor - rec.humor

lang.eiffel - comp.lang.eiffel

lang.ml - comp.lang.ml

linux - comp.os.linux.hardware

lisp - comp.lang.lisp

lisp.mcl - comp.lang.lisp.mcl

mac - comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc

mac.storage - comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage

movies - movies

music - music

nt - comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware

pc.cdrom - comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom

pc.chips - comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips

pc.comm - comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm

pc.storage - comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

pc.video - comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video

philosophy - philosophy

plant - bionet.biology.plant

prolog - comp.lang.prolog

sci.lang - sci.lang

smalltalk - comp.lang.smalltalk

speech - comp.speech

sun - comp.sys.sun.hardware

Full list of newsgroups

Click any area on the map to get a zoomed view! Color denotes the density or the clustering tendency of the documents. Light (yellow) areas are clusters and dark (red) areas empty space, "ravines", between the clusters.

Articles were collected from the following 83 newsgroups:

alt.fan.shostakovich

bionet.announce

bionet.biology.computational

bionet.biology.plant

bionet.biology.tropical

bionet.immunology

bionet.neuroscience

comp.ai

comp.ai.alife

comp.ai.doc-analysis.misc

comp.ai.doc-analysis.ocr

comp.ai.edu

comp.ai.fuzzy

comp.ai.games

comp.ai.genetic

comp.ai.jair.announce

comp.ai.jair.papers

comp.ai.nat-lang

comp.ai.neural-nets

comp.ai.nlang-know-rep

comp.ai.philosophy

comp.ai.shells

comp.ai.vision

comp.compilers

comp.constraints

comp.hardware

comp.lang.beta

comp.lang.clos

comp.lang.dylan

comp.lang.eiffel

comp.lang.lisp

comp.lang.lisp.mcl

comp.lang.lisp.x

comp.lang.ml

comp.lang.prolog

comp.lang.scheme

comp.lang.smalltalk

comp.object.logic

comp.os.linux.hardware

comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware

comp.publish.cdrom.hardware

comp.robotics

comp.speech

comp.sys.acorn.hardware

comp.sys.amiga.hardware

comp.sys.hp.hardware

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video

comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware

comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc

comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage

comp.sys.mac.hardware.video

comp.sys.next.hardware

comp.sys.sgi.hardware

comp.sys.sun.hardware

comp.theory

comp.theory.cell-automata

comp.theory.dynamic-sys

comp.theory.info-retrieval

comp.theory.self-org-sys

rec.arts.books

rec.arts.books.reviews

rec.arts.movies

rec.arts.movies.current-films

rec.arts.movies.past-films

rec.arts.movies.reviews

rec.humor

rec.humor.funny

rec.music.bluenote

rec.music.bluenote.blues

rec.music.classical

rec.music.progressive

sci.cognitive

sci.image.processing

sci.lang

sci.philosophy.meta

sci.philosophy.tech