I was interested to see how the spread of teachings for a specific
personality in the talmud varied by Masechta. The idea was that
this might give some insight into where this individual focused on
more in his learning.
To start off I chose Abaye, a forth generation Amora (died 337
CE). Using the sefaria data set, I wrote a python script to count
the number of times Abaye's name was mentioned in each Masechta.
Then I adjusted this count based on the number of words in each
masechta, so the size of the masechta didn't affect the measure of
what Masehctas Abaye taught in most frequently.
Below is the resulting treemap. Future steps would be to repeat
this for multiple individuals, to allow for comparison.