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Charly Wargnier
Charly Wargnier

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Easily visualise entity relationships from Wikipedia with Wiki Topic Grapher! πŸ‘Ύ

Leverage the power of Google Cloud Natural Language to retrieve entity relationships from Wikipedia URLs or topics!

  • Get interactive graphs of connected entities
  • Export results with entity types and salience to CSV!
  • Export results with entity types and entity salience to CSV!

πŸ’» Try the app: https://lnkd.in/dkfuhed
🧡 Twitter thread: https://lnkd.in/dji2a4s

Use cases

Many cool use cases!

  • Research a topic then get entity associations that exist from that seed topic
  • Map out related entities with your product, service or brand
  • Find how well you've covered a specific topic on your website Differentiate your pages!

This is not just an SEO tool! You can map any types of relationship from a given Wikipedia seed URL or topic. E.g someone from the community already mapped out relationships in structural molecular biology! πŸ€“πŸ§ 

Stack

About the stack, it's 100% Python! 🐍πŸ”₯

  • @GCPcloud Natural Language API
  • PyWikibot
  • Networkx PyVis
  • @streamlit
  • Streamlit Components -> streamlit.io/components

βš’οΈ Still To-Do’s

πŸ’° Add a budget estimator to get a sense of @GCPcloud costs!
🌍Add a multilingual option (currently English only)
πŸ“ˆAdd on-the-fly physics controls to the network graph
πŸ’―Add Google KG #API to add more data (scores, etc.) (ht @loukilaymen )

That code currently lays in a private repo. I should be able to make it public soon for you to re-use it in your own apps and creations! I just need to clean it a tad, remove some sensitive bits, etc.

πŸ™Œ Shout-outs

Kudos to @jroakes for the original script. Buy that man a 🍺 for his sterling contributions! ->
paypal.com/paypalme/codes…

Kudos also to fellow @streamlit Creators:

@napoles3d who told me about the PyVis lib! πŸ”₯
@andfanilo /@christianklose3 for their precious advice! πŸ™

πŸ’² Beware on costs!

It can get expensive quickly with that Google Natural Language API!

Monitor your costs via the GCP console regularly and/or put quotas to tame that G beast! I'm planning to add a budget estimator pre-API calls. Should come handy.

Feedback and support

Wiki Topic Grapher's still in Beta, with possible rough edges! Head-off to my Gitter page for bug reports, questions, or suggestions.

This app is free. If it's useful to you, you can buy me a β˜• to support my work! πŸ™

▢️ buymeacoffee.com/cwar05

That's all, folks. Enjoy!

Charly

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