This graph depicts which books have the highest concentration of various ideas found in the scripture. To learn more about the data and methods used to generate this graph, visit Textual analysis of Book of Mormon timeline proves it could not have been faked.
For each axis, beyond being able to choose any of the 264 fields measured, one can also select the principal components of these fields. Principal components are made up datapoints that broadly summarize all the data; for example, the first principal component basically measures whether the fields are sermons or if they discuss more historical things. Principal components work sequentially – so once the first principal component is computed, the next principal component is designed to explain all of the parts of the data not explained by the first principal component – meaning that each principal component measures a different thing from the previous ones, and the first few principal components will be much more important than the last ones.
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