This is a side project we are investigating with some friends in order to see if contemporary machine learning methods such as word2vec can be used to produce social mapping with layers of complexity.
Distributed computing over core grids is also a playground to look at viability of reading maps based on networks. After a simple statement formalization it is easy to see if hypothesis are strong over ten of thousands of different maps produced with the same corpus and samples of that corpus.
Convergences is a web visualization of convergences and divergences between the different languages of wikipedia as a proxy of distances between cultures.