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Can someone post examples? Most of the Wikipedia links are dead.
by dmazin 9y ago
Can someone post examples? Most of the Wikipedia links are dead.
- gwern 9y agoAll of the links should be in the Internet Archive. (I wrote OP and the links would've been included in my archive queue at the time.) FWIW, as much as I liked the idea of Chernoff faces after running into them in _Blindsight_, I was never able to find a productive use for them where they were really all that much a better visualization than, say, a bunch of scatterplots or fancier techniques like t-SNE.
- k__ 9y agoI think they could be good to detect small changes.
- aecs99 9y agoI hope the original paper can help: http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/chernoff%20(1973)%20the%20use%20of%20faces%20to%20represent%20points%20in%20k-dimensional%20space%20graphically.pdf http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/chernoff%20(1973)%20the%...
- DanBC 9y agoHere's a few in a bad Imgur gallery. This is taken from Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty (Clifford Pickover. Published in 1990.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667787