Visualizing How Books Reference Each Other Across 3k Years
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There are two parts for this project:1) The LLM-powered pipeline to extract citations (books + authors) from books and resolve them using both Wikipedia and Goodreads with offline copies I have. The result is data associating Books/Authors to other Books/Authors with accurate bibliographical information spanning centuries.2) A WebGPU + D3.js powered visualization tool written by Claude Code so I'm able to deal with all this data on the browser on a more or less comfortable experience for the viewer.I spent some months on a off with this project, and definitely the most challenging part was dealing with accurate bibliographical information across centuries, with original publication dates and etc. For that I wrote what is now a very complex pipeline with LLMs (I used DeepSeek V3.2) wired on offline Goodreads and Wikipedia databases + a fallback that actually uses the internet.Hope you enjoy it! Open to suggestions on how to improve the system :)Code is here: https://github.com/ThiagoLira/bookgraph-revisited
HN · launched Feb 11, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: data and scientific visualization tools · 146 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Building the interactive 3D/timeline frontend is straightforward, but processing centuries of book texts and resolving entity citations against Wikipedia/Goodreads offline dumps requires serious data pipeline work.
What it would actually take: The backend requires an ingestion and OCR pipeline across thousands of historical texts, NER extraction using local or API-based LLMs, and an entity disambiguation engine matching against Wikidata and Goodreads dumps. The frontend requires a WebGL/Three.js or D3 force-directed 3D network visualization optimized for high-density historical graph rendering. A developer needs strong graph data modeling and large-scale data engineering experience.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: DeepSeek V3.2
Concerns raised: High token costs for processing large datasets, Data accuracy issues (incorrect historical dating)
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