Back into the office this morning (arrived via jog) after the weekend work binge. Realized in the course of pasting what I’d written so far into LaTeX yesterday that I will need to rewrite quite substantially. I want to start with a description of the morphospace plot, some general words about visualizing high-dimensional data and the plot-points-as-data approach I take in this figure. Then I can go on to the characters-vs-axes-correlation plot (which I suppose will be Figure 2, then), describe that, and then go back to the marginal figures around the main Figure 1 plot to highlight some of the characters that come out of that analysis, plus some others.<\/p>\n
Anyway.The first thing was to finish getting myself set up in LaTeX, which ended up taking a truly ridon<\/em>culous amount of time\u2014tables are a bitch to do at the best of times, but when it’s a 123 * 140 data matrix, it can eat up the better part of a day. In any case, I’ve got my writing so far, the character descriptions, and the complete data matrix nicely formatted and ready to go. While it seems like the sort of low-priority thing you might save until the end, I think I chose well to do this now, since the aesthetic pleasure of seeing my dissertation begin to take form <\/em>is having a more-than-desired motivating effect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back into the office this morning (arrived via jog) after the weekend work binge. Realized in the course of pasting what I’d written so far into LaTeX yesterday that I will need to rewrite quite substantially. I want to start with a description of the morphospace plot, some general words about visualizing high-dimensional data and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14607,13584],"tags":[2374,59899,6277],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-journal","category-timekeeping","tag-aesthetics","tag-latex","tag-motivation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}