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Re:Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots by kqr on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:18AM (#38205273)
Those plots are so much better. They also give a sense of the variation around the shape, and are less smoothed than in this article.

Also thumbs up for using self-organising maps. Way underappreciated idea!

Re:Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots by all2 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @12:09PM (#38207696)
For those like me who don't know what a self organizing map is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map

    A self-organizing map (SOM) or self-organizing feature map (SOFM) is an unsupervised machine learning technique used to produce a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional) representation of a higher dimensional data set while preserving the topological structure of the data.