Show HN: A real estate firm is manually tracking climate buzzwords at Cop26(jll.co.uk)
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Show HN: A real estate firm is manually tracking climate buzzwords at Cop26
https://www.jll.co.uk/en/cop26-return-on-sustainability
https://www.jll.co.uk/en/cop26-return-on-sustainability
That said, I think people should look at it because it's one of the silliest data visualizations I've ever seen (happy to be told I misinterpret it).
It's some kind of 2D heat map (rendered in 3D) that you can rotate around. The axes are not defined and there is no obvious meaning to them. The words that are highlighted are the obvious throwaway words ("climate change" - how informative) that you'd normally clean out. And unless I'm mistaken, there is no significance to the areas between the words, but its rendered as a continuous graph.
My guess is it's a word embedding and were somehow looking at symantic similarity of the terms? Which I dont see the relevance of. Why is this better than a bar chart of the ten most frequent topics or terms? I'm going to save this as an example of how not to do data visualization