> Has there been any good application of "periodic table" as a visualization method for anything other than chemical elements? Only https://moderntoss.com/peri

> Has there been any good application of "periodic table" as a visualization method for anything other than chemical elements? Only https://moderntoss.com/periodic-table-of-swearing https://moderntoss.com/periodic-table-of-swearing that I can think of, and I disagree with several ordering choices on that, and some of the options made up to fill gaps are not at all good. The problem with a lot of things people try to mush into something that looks like the periodic table is that most datasets: • Have too few items • Have too many items • Simply don't fit into a near table, needing more dimensions, or having two obvious dimensions that line up into a grid less well than the elements do. Heck, even the elements don't really fit. It just happens that it works & looks OK if you break out a load from the bottom left to stop it being too wide. As someone else has already said: the periodic table is more a document of a model, that by chance happens to work well enough as a visualisation.