Multidimensional scaling

Here are a sample of USGS authors who produced reports in 1993 on the Yellowstone region. The frequency of keywords that were shared among their reports were used to compute inter-author "distances" that were then used to create a 2-dimensional "topic space."

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The keywords have been placed to suggest the subjects reported on by some of the authors.

1998/05/11