It’s hard to conceive of distance measured in anything other than a straight line. The biplot below, for example, shows the scores of Shakespeare’s plays on the two Docuscope LATs discussed in the previous post, FirstPerson and AbstractConcepts: Plotting the items in two dimensions gives the viewer some general sense of the shape of the data. “There are more items […]
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Finding “Distances” Between Shakespeare’s Plays 2: Projecting Distances onto New Bases with PCA
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Also tagged change of basis, humanities, Jonathon Shlens, literary concepts, pca, Principal Component Analysis, projection
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