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Hey Everybody! Hope you had a merry christmas

Today I had a bit of fun with Claude.

Started by scraping YC's startups list, then ran them through OpenAI's embedding service, then UMAP'd the embedding to reduce the dimension to just two coordinates and then just forced Claude to write React that would compile to visualize that.

I had fun and I think it's interesting, so take a look!

Also note that you won't be able to zoom on mobile (found about this Plotly limitation way too late). If there's interest I can fix this issue by changing plotting libs tomorrow :)

Merry christmas

Liftyee · a year ago

Cool project, but missed opportunity to name the arbitrary dimensions Y and C...

lovestory · a year ago

My dumb ass was trying to figure out what each dimension meant

tptacek · a year ago

That doesn't make you dumb; there is no intuitive meaning for the axes chosen; you can think of them, roughly, as statistically chosen to maximize clustering.

alex-knyaz · a year ago

same

Bilal_io · a year ago

OP made the change

yoouareperfect · a year ago

haha awesome, shipped!

ProofHouse · a year ago

I figure why not plot them with an X and Y (Y,C) of some sort

paxys · a year ago

There's no need to include an X & Y axis, labels and gridlines if they all have no meaning. A simple cluster diagram is enough.

ascorbic · a year ago

I agree it would be less confusing if they weren't there. I'm sure I'm not alone in spending some time trying to work out what the axes were.

mbostleman · a year ago

That’s why I’m here

rl_for_energy · a year ago

It’d be nice to just see the name of the company on click instead of going to the website (I’m on mobile). Trying to find our company

HeyTomesei · a year ago

Looks nice, but I'm lost. What do the colors represent? What do the axes #s represent?

kurayashi · a year ago

The colours represent the categories in the filters. Sadly they don’t show which category is which colour.

default_ · a year ago

Improvement Proposition: Could you plot the investment size on the C-axis and the number of people working for the company on the Y-axis? The chart should be improved; otherwise, it lacks meaning.

rrr_oh_man · a year ago

Cool concept! What are the X and Y axes?

Oh, and your website has an unchanged Wordpress favicon...

tptacek · a year ago

They're semi-arbitrary, dimensionally reduced from OpenAI embedding vectors.

crush_robo_1536 · a year ago

Love this! It'd be interesting if some builds this but adds more dimensions (similar to Company status) to it that you can query or group by. For example, if I look at S21 and W21 batches, then it'd be nice to know things like -

1. How many of these companies made it to series A, series B, etc

2. How many of these companies have > x employees (where x can be 5, 10, 20, etc)

3. How many of these companies had a founder that moved on to something else

This does require a lot more intelligent data scraping or manual data collection though.

iceman_w · a year ago

I've been scraping YC data week over week to track things like changes in founder, pivots in the idea, company shutting down, etc. You can check it out here https://pivots.fyi/

detente18 · a year ago

I wish you could filter by startup name. Would be curious to know where we (litellm) ended up