I love them! It's a really nice, fun way to explore a corpus. Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast.
That said, I've never had a client or stakeholder show any interest in using one, beyond an initial "that's cool".
And UMAP etc., is just as much an art as a science. You'll go mad trying to get the perfect layout.
Great toy if you're into that sort of thing, but yeah, fiddly and overwhelming for most.
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I love them! It's a really nice, fun way to explore a corpus. Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast.
That said, I've never had a client or stakeholder show any interest in using one, beyond an initial "that's cool".
And UMAP etc., is just as much an art as a science. You'll go mad trying to get the perfect layout.
Great toy if you're into that sort of thing, but yeah, fiddly and overwhelming for most.