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It would be cool if the author made the dataset available it would be fun to try other things with it - population weighing (as WildUtah mentions), grouping the
by yread 13y ago
It would be cool if the author made the dataset available it would be fun to try other things with it - population weighing (as WildUtah mentions), grouping them by language families and calculating intra and inter-group weirdness (and distances), clustering the languages into new groups, calculating weirdness as mean distance in the 21 dimensional space to all other languages, projecting the space itself on a plane so that we can see it better,...
- chewxy 13y agoYou can download it yourself at http://wals.info/export http://wals.info/export . And given enough effort, you can quite quickly reverse engineer which 21 features were used.
- yread 13y agoThat's the thing, he reduced the dataset from 2677 languages with 192 features to 239 languages with 21 features. That's usually the hardest part of any analysis, so it would be nice if he shared the results of his hard work with us...
- TylerSinSF 13y ago(Now added to the bottom of the post.)