Knowledge Discovery

Luigi Assom
2 min readMay 19, 2015

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Learn Discovery — A Portable Discovery Engine to instantly recall and learn about facts, sciences, history and persons.

Mobile app for reference and education

Learn Discovery is the mobile app to visualize the answers to questions you never thought to ask.
Instantly visualize what you are studying and informing about, to make sense of new information in a blink.
You can understand things even without an educational background on what you want to explore.

Reference and Education app for iPad and iPhone.

LearnDiscovery is the portable version of the discovery engine applied to the largest collaborative encyclopedia.
The Discovery Engine computes the mind-map the English Wikipedia. Since the mind-map is an object computed out of millions of contributions by real people, and Wikipedia is the first site for factual reference watch on Earth, it is a seminal portion of the “map of human knowledge”, the mindmap of mankind.

The knowledge maps account of 4 Million topics and 100 millions correlations. The image is an artistic represenation of the coarse-grained network reduced to 1000 nodes.

State-of-art Search Engines also used encyclopedias to improve content recommendation capabilities: as example, Google integrates results from Wikipedia and Wikidata in the Knowledge Graph , while Bing established a partnership with Britannica Encyclopedia

LearnDiscovery lets you save time in your researches and helps you quickly understand things you don’t know.
Instead of simply providing suggestions, LearnDiscovery lets you access the human knowledge mindmap to overview and summarize the links connecting what you are familiar with with new information. You can instantly recall visual references about the context of things you are interested in, and save maps about whole knowledge areas.

A poster where images represents knowledge maps about different subjects: astronomy and galaxies; minerals; Caravaggio and his arts; Jimi Hendrix and his music; Galileo Galilei, Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution; Gods and myths in the Nordic Europe; Vincent Van Gogh and his masterpieces; Ornithology: Birds of prey. Each subject is visually recognizable: the meaning of each knowledge map is visually encoded in its iconography. Each subject is a subgraph related to entity queried against the discovery engine.

Simply select a topic you are familiar with, and use visual maps as tool to orient yourself in your own discoveries.
A map is a tool to save time in seeking meningful answers about doubts and curiosity.

An artistic representation of cartography applied to the knowledge landscape. Knowledge mapping is like measuring the distance from one topic to another, so that to obtain a map with which navigate in the realm of factual knowledge, and reach your discoveries starting from what you are familiar with.

Get excited and empower yourself!

Here’s a link to the app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-discovery-mindmap-wikipedia/id859954749?ls=1&mt=8

Here’s official webpage: www.learndiscovery.com

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