Naturally, visitors to AIS are disappointed that their inputs are not tallied into a “score” or something along the lines of “according to your responses, you are an X.” The good news is that I am closer to having something to offer along those lines. I finally figured out how to use the mdp.pca function which is provided by the python-mdp package, which I can use to squash the 27-dimensional plot of each user’s responses (to the 27 survey items) down to two dimensions, so any day now that feature will be added to the survey website.

Here are x and y coordinates for the first 30 survey participants:

apathy	0.995887	-0.169441
My own	4.223772	3.413769
anagorism	-1.784399	3.183075
a form of anarchism	-1.075477	3.023811
[ideology #5]	3.167429	-0.156532
Scientific Method-ism	0.894437	1.575817
scientifically existential but spiritual	-0.610558	5.441262
Anarcho-pragmatism	-7.453418	-1.605741
Anarcho-pragmatism	-7.950199	-1.240808
anar12	-8.044710	-1.123891
appresent	-6.095322	-0.015725
[ideology #12]	-1.205375	2.107343
[ideology #13]	0.030675	0.843055
Populist Paleo-Conservatism	1.460594	-2.314156
[ideology #15]	0.176581	-1.367185
[ideology #16]	1.686290	-3.331719
Moderate	1.376917	2.247787
[ideology #18]	0.995887	-0.169441
[ideology #19]	0.004063	2.568823
awesome	1.962063	-1.642584
open minded	2.062894	-0.888627
[ideology #22]	3.034882	-1.773689
utilitarianism	1.645822	-2.247058
Liberalism	3.287084	-1.768130
[ideology #25]	1.488372	0.704766
Humanist Centrism	1.131395	0.247345
[ideology #27]	0.940726	-5.252754
idk-ism	1.647592	-1.899922
[ideology #29]	0.995887	-0.169441
discordimarxservativatarianism	1.010210	1.779992

The next step, of course, is to render this graphically. Unless I come up with something more elegant, I think I’ll be using the .text method of the ImageDraw class, once I figure that thing out. Give it a couple weeks at most, unless the shit hits the fan or something.