#UMAP
Biologist, stop putting UMAP plots in papers!

Blogpost here: simplystatistics.org/posts/2024-1...
Simply Statistics: Biologists, stop putting UMAP plots in your papers
UMAP is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, but without a clear understanding of how it works, it can easily lead to confusion and misinterpretation.
simplystatistics.org
December 23, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Literally nobody understands UMAP
April 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
this layout is a UMAP visualization of these embeddings, with a special "finishing" stage at the end to smooth out overlapping nodes. umap-learn.readthedocs.io
UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction — umap 0.5 documentation
umap-learn.readthedocs.io
November 11, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Rafa has come out swinging this morning 😂
April 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your UMAP?

No.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Well I was trying to embed a diagram in Microsoft word…
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

What can I say, my toddler found the scissors.
December 21, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Guy who doesn’t know what UMAP is: They are very close together on UMAP
September 23, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Mosquitoes as deliberate torture caught on elsewhere. In Cuba when UMAP camps were imposed under Castro, "Jehovah Witnesses were subject to all manner of cruel treatment: beaten; deprived of food, water... tied up naked outside and left for the mosquitoes and sun." [10/17]
July 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
UMAP (derogatory)
October 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Simply Statistics: Biologists, stop putting UMAP plots in your papers https://simplystatistics.org/posts/2024-12-23-biologists-stop-including-umap-plots-in-your-papers/ from @rafalab.bsky.social 🧬🖥️🧪
December 31, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Wikimedia concepts embedded and then mapped to a sphere with UMAP. Trying out topic clusters as continents. Not really sure where it's going.
June 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
via the magic of laion_clap embeddings and umap, my live coding thingy has a sample browser at last!
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
currently reading the umap docs
umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/in...
November 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la rare Citroën 2cv UMAP (Usine Moderne d’Applications Plastique)
August 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
And you thought UMAP was problematic…
per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing
Why is Trump fixated on Greenland? @sbg1.bsky.social recalls what he told us in 2021: "I said, 'Why don’t we have that?' You take a look at a map...I love maps. And I always said 'Look at the size of this, it’s massive and that should be part of the United States.'" www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
January 9, 2026 at 1:24 AM
That's why Nature has four figure papers: the UMAP, and then the rest
January 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I generated emotion vectors for Gemma 4 E2B using a methodology similar to Anthropic's emotion paper, here is a UMAP plot for layer 25 of Gemma vs Sonnet
April 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM
When your UMAP mimicks the structure of the clustered cells:
#zebrafish #devbio #PILife #MesodermIsStillRelevant
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
the umap character of the neighborhood
Emotions mapped in two dimensions
April 3, 2026 at 3:54 AM
The Utility Workers Military Assistance Program has helped hundreds of veterans find good, family-sustaining careers in the utility sector since 2011. Without programs like UMAP, the VA cannot meet its mission.
September 20, 2026 at 1:10 AM
UMAP on foodb flavor embeddings
April 3, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Efectivos del MITECO refuerzan a las CCAA en la extinción de incendios

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July 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas in genome space (each dot is one genome) 🧪 arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/...
February 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
*first day as a pilot*

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December 3, 2023 at 6:16 PM
sure, i have 20M lib of congress amazon.titan-embed-text-v2:0 embeddings, 5.5M have DDC, so I did:
1. Extracted centroids for each ddc ### class (labels from wikipedia)
2. Plotted PCA / UMAP

Web viewer: thisismattmiller.github.io/dcc-embedding/
Code: github.com/thisismattmi...
May 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM