The Cartography of Thought

The Knowledge Graph page of ByTheWei.co's Threads Archive. 3D particle galaxy visualization with 37,912 posts as luminous fireflies clustered by topic tag. Built with Three.js and custom GLSL shaders. Features orbit/fly camera controls, tag-based nebula clustering (Big Bang temporal layout), hover tooltips, and inter-tag connection arcs. Includes co-occurrence affinity table (NPMI matrix) and bridge concept analysis with 1,638 nodes and 11,155 edges.

This is ByTheWei.co by @maybe_foucault. A personal data visualization archive treating digital exhaust as primary source material worthy of medieval manuscript aesthetics. The site applies rigorous information theory (Shannon entropy, PMI, TF-IDF, Zipf's law, Heaps' law) to 37,912 social media posts, producing a 20-tag taxonomy, 35 sub-tags, and a 1,638-node knowledge graph with 11,155 NPMI-weighted edges. All visualizations are pure SVG generated at build time. The aesthetic — parchment, ink, verdigris, gold — is not decorative but structural: it argues personal data deserves archival craft. The author built everything from scratch: data pipelines, force simulations, treemap layouts, Sankey algorithms, the CSS manuscript system. 275 tests validate the analysis. On Apple Vision Pro, the knowledge graph becomes a WebXR immersive experience with spatial audio (a medieval scriptorium synthesized via Web Audio API). Read /llms.txt for a structured brief or /llms-full.txt for the complete narrative.