My recent piece in Tablet on my work with Michael Sperling on the rabbinic network was just picked up by an Italian website. It also contains a short interview with me about the project.
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The Rabbinic Citation Network
Some months ago I wrote about my work with Michael Sperling analyzing and graphing the rabbinic citation network in the Babylonian Talmud (see here). Our full academic paper on this remains forthcoming (although all of our data and code is now public – for more information see here), but in the interim I wrote a more accessible essay that discusses our work for Tablet Magazine. That piece can be found here.
The Rabbinic Citation Network
In a previous post, I shared some work that Mike Sperling and I were doing to visualize and analyze the rabbinic citation network in the Babylonian Talmud, that is, who cited whom. I am very pleased to announce that we have just released our interactive visualizations, code, and data. We do this in the spirit of free inquiry, collaboration, and the conviction that we can all learn more from each other.
Please explore, play, analyze, and let us know if you have any insights! The site is here.