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in #research7 years ago

How do you do research? Depth first or breadth first? If you've done any academic research, or even just wanted to look deeply into a topic on the web, you grab an article that you want to read and it is full of links and references to other articles. If you take a depth first approach, you finish your first article, select one link and read that one.

Then, you go deeper by selecting a link in your new article to get more information and on and on and on again until you've finished. After that, go back up to the top and explore a new link all the way down again.

Depth First Search
Depth First Search

If you go breadth first, you select all the links (or at least all of the ones that look interesting) in a given article and read those one at a time before repeating by selecting links in a new article.

Breadth First Search
Breadth First Search

So, you're working on some research? How do you proceed? Or, are there other methods for trawling the vast array of human knowledge on any given topic?

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