HumansMap
Shares rank 18 of 31 interactive visualizations by recommenders
Recommended for exploring connections between people and organizations, such as family dynasties and org memberships, through an interactive graph of Wikidata entities.
Recommended for exploring connections between people and organizations, such as family dynasties and org memberships, through an interactive graph of Wikidata entities.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Explores family dynasties and org connections
“Better for mobile use, here you can explore family dynasties, org memberships, interesting relationships.”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)” “Built this due to my passion to explore the connections between known people and organizations”
Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “HumansMap, an interactive graph visualization of 3M+ Wikidata entities” Fun to explore
“Hope you find entertaining and fast exploring the graph”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: HumansMap Interactive Graph of 1M+ Wikidata Entities with Investigate” “really fun to play around with”
Comment from 19 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: HumansMap – Explore family dynasties, relationship, org networks” Useful Feed and Discover features
“I added the Feed feature to the site to make it more usable from mobile.”
Comment from 17 Jun 2026 in “HumansMap, a feed of family dynasties and links between orgs. No ads” “I find it to be a very interesting Discover feature”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: HumansMap: Explore organizations and people connection graphs” Works well on mobile
“Better for mobile use, here you can explore family dynasties, org memberships, interesting relationships.”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)” “I added the Feed feature to the site to make it more usable from mobile.”
Comment from 17 Jun 2026 in “HumansMap, a feed of family dynasties and links between orgs. No ads”
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The four most recommended other interactive visualizations, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| ciechanow.ski | 33 | 1 | 97% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Size of Life | 30 | 4 | 88% | 2 | — | — |
| PGSimCity | 27 | 3 | 90% | 1 | — | — |
| Ithihāsas | 18 | 3 | 86% | 1 | — | — |
| HumansMapThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I think the concept is cool, but I tried clicking on stuff I'm familiar with, and I don't get the circles thing.”
“Better for mobile use, here you can explore family dynasties, org memberships, interesting relationships.”
“I find it to be a very interesting Discover feature”
“really fun to play around with”
“I added the Feed feature to the site to make it more usable from mobile.”
“You have a done a huge service.”
“Hope you find entertaining and fast exploring the graph”
“Built this due to my passion to explore the connections between known people and organizations”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.