Information Cartography by Carlos Guestrin and Eric Horvitz. (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/11/193323)
Brief discussion of the CACM paper that I think will capture your interest.
From the introduction:
We demonstrate that metro maps can help people understand information in many areas, including news stories, research areas, legal cases, even works of literature. Metro maps can help them cope with information overload, framing a direction for research on automated extraction of information, as well as on new representations for summarizing and presenting complex sets of interrelated concepts.
Spend some time this weekend with this article and its references.
More to follow next week!