Interesting to see the similarities between Stanford dissertations. I was not surprised to see the link between Computer Science and Philosophy. Heartened by a slight connection between dissertations in Computer Science and Genetics.

The creator states:

The Stanford Dissertation Browser is an experimental interface for document collections that enables richer interaction than search. Stanford’s PhD dissertation abstracts from 1993-2008 are presented through the lens of a text model that distills high-level similarity and word usage patterns in the data. You’ll see each Stanford department as a circle, colored by school and sized by the number of PhD students graduating from that department.

The visual search paradigm will be powerful in bioinformatics as we explore ever richer datasets.

(See also: dissertation browser background)
(See also: dissertation browser)