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sveinb t1_j96tg3o wrote

I guess this is a PCA plot. Most people commenting clearly aren't familiar with the concept and therefore don't understand the plot. It's not the plot's fault, it's a perfectly good plot, and these plots have no meaningful units etc. Maybe a link to the wikipedia article about PCA would have helped those without a scientific background, which is unfortunately most of the world.

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Marrrkkkk t1_j97em6h wrote

Sure, it's not necessarily lacking a scale though. It's lacking a meaningful definition of the labels. The words currently used mean little especially with what are essentially duplicates. It would also help to label it as PCA...

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sveinb t1_j9a2qx6 wrote

You mean the axes? They are simply the 1st and 2nd components. Not very useful, and quite ok to omit. Do you mean the cluster labels? They are useful enough, I think. It would have been useful to label it as a PCA plot, though.

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sveinb t1_j9a91xi wrote

The fact that there are several distinct clusters with the same label means that there are several distinct recipes that go under the same name, which I think is interesting.

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