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This is good, but could also be good to mention that you're using umap for dimensionality reduction with cosine metric.

https://github.com/Z-Gort/Reservoirs-Lab/blob/main/src/elect...

Dimensionality reduction from n >> 2 dimensions to 2 dimensions can be very fickle, so the hyperparameters matter. Your visualization can change significantly significantly depending on choice of metric.

https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parameters.html

You may want to consider projecting to more than 2 dimensions too. You may ask, how does one visualize more than two dimensions? Through a scatterplot matrix of 2 axes at a time.

https://seaborn.pydata.org/examples/scatterplot_matrix.html

These are used for PCA-type multivariate analyses to visualize latent variables in higher dimensions than 2, but 2 dimensions at a time. Some clustering behavior that cannot be seen in 2 axes might be seen in higher dimensions. We used to do this our lab to find anomalies in high dimensions.

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