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All that in-depth explanation, and he forgot the first rule of data visualization: always label your axis! This should have been at the top, but was buried at
by odbol_ 10y ago
All that in-depth explanation, and he forgot the first rule of data visualization: always label your axis!
This should have been at the top, but was buried at the bottom of the article: "The left side of the 2D representation represents the more serious headlines, while the right side represents the more silly headlines. "
- minimaxir 10y agoThe axes are intentionally unlabeled. They don't represent anything, just spatial coordinates. The fact that X-axis had a parseable interpretation (and the sliding scale of serious is not a hard rule as there are many counterexamples; I noted the scale as an quick observation) was due to the randomness of the clustering algorithm. It is possible that the chart could end up rotated if the algorithm is run again.
- iqisracist 10y agonope