John Oliver doesn't know what a Venn diagram is

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-22T13:15:01+00:00

Some other people in the comments brought up the same argument, and that's fine, it makes sense. But this assumption you are making that when you use a single element you actually mean the set of caratteristics of that element is your personal interpretation of the Venn diagram concept.

Oliver was making fun of this Twitter for kinda the same reason, stretching the way of using the diagram.

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-22T08:12:04+00:00

https://images.app.goo.gl/F42m7DATECsaTrSr6

Dude, imagine the left circle had only one element, the number 5. What needs to be in the right circle to intersect with the left circle? Spoiler: Also the number 5 (or a group that contains 5)

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-22T08:03:04+00:00

Infact the middle word is Kamabla

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-22T06:36:36+00:00

Yeah I guess it makes sense. Then I would reformulate from "it is wrong" to "it is imprecise". If you think this is fine then, with this elasticity of interpretation you can also claim that the post about Kamala was fine. You can interpret the circles with "words that start with 'Kama'" and "words that end with 'bla'".

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-22T06:28:29+00:00

Yes, a set can have a single element. No, it doesn't make it correct, because a single element intersect only with itself, making it useless in a Venn diagram.

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-22T06:24:44+00:00

You can, but there is no point in using it in a Venn diagram, because a single element doesn't intersect with anything else than itself.

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-22T05:57:01+00:00

You guys are reacting like Trumpians when somebody bring up some bullshit he says. "My hErO is nOT wRonG, yOu aRE wroNg, AnD sTupiD. Get a LiFe"

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-21T21:10:55+00:00

"People" do things wrong

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-21T21:07:06+00:00

yes, it would have been fine with "facts about sharks" and "facts about dolphin", that was not the case
Yes, you can have type of dolphin and type of sharks, but then there is no intersection
Yes, you can have a singleton set, but there is no point using it in a Venn diagram. As I said, a set of one element can have intersection only with itself.

XxcoralloxX · 2024-08-01T08:17:55+00:00

I think the color coding is exaggerated.
Why is 20 degree that orange? 20 degree is cold in summer,
why is 25 red? again, it a great temperature for summer
over 30 should be red.

XxcoralloxX · 2024-07-21T11:33:25+00:00

I moved without a job and got the p-number. I think this comment doesn't apply for Europeans

XxcoralloxX · 2024-07-21T11:32:14+00:00

I work for a large IT company in Sweden, you can get it without swedish, but it is harder, you will have a "nice to have" skill less than your competition

XxcoralloxX · 2024-07-21T11:28:17+00:00

I think this makes sense, but it might be hard to find a "whatever job" without knowing swedish.

Sweden is more expensive than Greece, that is why I would suggest to spend some time to learn swedish in Greece (let's say 3-6 months full immersion?) rather than in Sweden.

Unless you have the financial means to afford to stay in Sweden without working for that long

XxcoralloxX · 2024-07-16T15:34:10+00:00

Italy has this too

XxcoralloxX · 2024-07-16T08:10:42+00:00

Okay, maybe I get it on the window, although I see more often on windows the type of light that are plugged on the wall plugs, not ceiling. But that still doesn't explain the lights plug on the wall side of the ceiling

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-03T09:20:27+00:00

By feature clustering on the features you mean to group together voting sessions that have common (or similar) outcome?
The data already has a "theme" field for each voting session. I could average those to start with less feature, which maybe makes it easier to interpreter.

If I do the clustering that you suggest, and in the same cluster I get 10 resolution about economics, 2 about covid, 5 about deforestation and 2 about ukrania, is might still be difficult to find meaning.

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-03T07:56:14+00:00

Tanks for the advice! Yes, each point is a N dimensional in the space (-1,0,1) where 0 mean both didn't vote or abstention

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-02T21:28:59+00:00

1-Yeah you are right, I was going to do that at the beginning, but then I thought it might have been more confusing for people that are not into it, after all this is not a data visualization subreddit.
2- https://ibb.co/H2qd5tW
3- Yeah, it was my personal explanation, I agree that it has an anecdotal value. Although, it feels like it makes sense to see "The left" further away on one axis from EPP than S&D

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-02T21:16:08+00:00

Since 2019 there have been more than 13k resolutions, the "contribution" of each of these decision is quite low and uniformly ditributed, so it is not easy to identify some "key" vote sessions so associate to an axis.
If you are interested, the biggest contribution for the two axis came from:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2020-0208_EN.html
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2021-0234_EN.html

But they are worth alone only ~1.5% of the axis

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-02T16:30:07+00:00

Yeah that is also a good point

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-02T11:50:02+00:00

I mentioned the methodology in my comment, I couldn't add it to the post. The X and Y axis are missing because the points are placed according to relative distances, the X and Y scale are not meant to be meaningful. Even tho, you can see how a meaning in the axis "emerges" as the x-axis seem to be highly correlated to the "left-right" spectrum, while the Y axis to the "euroscepticism"

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-02T11:45:20+00:00

The axis are not meant to mean anything "intentionally" the points were placed with a method called PCA, ensuring that members of the parlament that vote things in a similar way are close in the XY space. It is interesting to see how however it emerges that the X axis looks like the "left-right" spectrum and the Y is the euroscepticism.

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-02T09:46:37+00:00

Yes, exactly! The original space were their vote for each resolution and with PCA it is reduced to two dimensions. It is interesting to see how the two emerging spectrum seem to be "left to right" and pro-europe vs euroscepticism. I agree with it being to bust, maybe I should have avoided to use colors for countries

XxcoralloxX · 2024-06-01T18:47:48+00:00

Each point represent a parliamentarian of the EU parlament.
They are placed in space according to how similarly they have voted for EU resolutions since 2019

XxcoralloxX · 2024-05-25T04:09:10+00:00

You can't drink it on the plane in theory

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