Visualizing Cloud Atlas: A Graph of Storytelling

This is short and flawed, but I’m using it for a demo in class. I mapped a few a things from Cloud Atlas and this was the most interesting aspect that popped into view. Google Fusion Tables have been updated to a new look, so you have to revert back to the “Classic Look” to access the network graph feature.

The graph below shows which character told whom their story and it illustrates the snaking narrative of the novel.

Tim Lepczyk

Writer, Technologist, and Librarian.

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