This page collects some information about and pictures of my academic ancestry, as well as the non-trivial overlap between my genetic and mathematical ancestries.
This information was made/collected/visualized primarily using:
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project, the primary source for data on who did their Ph.D. where, and with whom.
- Geneagrapher. Created by David Alber, Geneagrapher is an outstanding command line tool for automatically grabbing ancestry data from the MGP and saving it in the GraphViz format (.dot).
- GraphViz. Open source, easy to use (but hard to customize) software to create visualizations of the data downloaded with Geneagrapher.
- Gephi. A remarkable open source graph visualization program. Takes some playing with, but makes gorgeous pictures.
Data specific to me:
- Academic Brothers and Sisters via Bela Bollobas, my PhD supervisor.
- Students of my grandfather, Donald "Beh" Bushaw.
Graphical Views ({Ancestors}+{Bollobas decendents}):
- Academic Family Tree, viewed as a family tree [pdf].
- Academic Family Tree, circular visualization [png].
- Academic Family Tree, different circular visualization [pdf].
- Academic Family Tree, different circular visualization [png].
- Academic Family Tree, force repulsion visualization [pdf].
- Academic Family Tree, Fruchterman-Rheingold visualization [png].
- Academic Family Tree, radial axis visualization [png].
- Academic Family Tree, random node placement visualization [png].
- Academic Family Tree, more different circular visualization [png].
- Academic Family Tree, Yifan-Hu proportional multilevel visualization [png].
