Shared tastes in literature, music and more?
No, this isn't a very bad "lonely hearts" advert, but the fruits of an interesting website I was alerted to and raised in our ideas meeting earlier this week.
The Literature Map builds a visual representation of authors, showing how close one is to the next, based on submissions from thousands of people.
Here's one, based around George Orwell:
You can have a go yourself Do you think it works? Share your thoughts about the Literature Map in the comments section below.
I've been speaking to the man behind the Literature Map, Marek Gibney, who works in Hamburg. He told me how the Literature Map is just one of his projects that uses Artificial Intelligence to build up a picture of people's tastes...