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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
People seem to have a really hard time understanding that literature-map is not about finding similar authors. It's about exactly what you mentioned: grouping authors simply on people's likes. Nothing more, nothing less. A lot of people who like A, also tend to like B, C, D and E. Nothing more, nothing less. I find that incredibly helpful; regardless of the similarities (or lack thereof) between authors close to the center of the map. Why does it need to group similar authors to be un-peculiar/more useful?
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Basically, it's the same principle as Amazon's recommendations.