An Interactive Atlas of Objectivism
Incomplete but Interactive Network Graphs and Trivia Quizzes
Postsocialist Press (posocap.com) has published several interactive entity‑relationship (“network”) graphs of the Objectivist movement as open access web apps. While the graphs and their underlying database are still incomplete and under active development, they are open for exploration, and users are invited to submit any corrections or additions they would like to see.
The graph web apps are currently hosted on Peikoffian and WhoNeeds.It.
Context
A year ago next week, this stack published one of its first Substack articles in an attempt to find other Substack blogs that had been publishing on Ayn Rand or her philosophy of moral objectivism. The motivation was to learn about the “landscape” of a topic of interest on this platform, using data science techniques. To that end, RSS feeds were used by a data crawler and scraper written to document this data.
The results were incomplete and noisy, but it was a mildly useful…
