Questions regarding MDS - Multidimensional Scaling R functions
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No mapping between account names and security IDs was done - Install SQL Server MDS Workflow Integration Service
I try to create custom workflow by following article in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/master-data-services/develop/create-a-custom-workflow-master-data-services.
I try to run InstallUtil Microsoft.MasterDataServices.Workflow.exe, but it…

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How to compare MDS and Cluster analysis in R
This is my first post on here so I hope I don't break any rules! I have a set of 30snps sampled from 450 individuals. I have performed an MDS on my dataset and a cluster analysis. In both cases I have obtained two distinct groups. I would like to…

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NMDS display and point symbol questions (vegan in r)
I've successfully produced NMDS plots (monoMDS, bray-curtis, 3 dimensions, local model). Each point represents an animal and their diet composition.
I have two questions:
(1) how do I change the symbology of points to show 2 levels (a or j) within 1…

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IIS windows authentication install difficulties
I am trying to install Master Data Service MSD on my local machine. Theorically there are 3 steps :
pre-installation tasks
Installation tasks
post-Installation tasks
During the pre-installation tasks we verify the installation requirements.
The…

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How can I create a business rule in Master Data Services that would force all lowercase in the attributes?
I am looking to create a business rule in Master Data Services that would force all entries in an attribute to be lowercase. Is there a way to do this possibly with Regex or any other method? Thanks.

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Python - Visualize Doc2Vec multi-dimensional Vectors in 2D with sklearn MDS class
For a simple evaluation on my Doc2Vec training model, I need to transform 400-dimension vectors to 2-dimensions and visualize the documents as a set of nodes, where the distance between any two nodes is inversely proportional to their similarity…

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metaMDS telling me I have negative values when I have zeroes
I keep getting this error when trying to perform metaMDS on my ecology data, same as this post.
'comm' has negative data: 'autotransform', 'noshare' and 'wascores' set to FALSE
Error in distfun(comm, method = distance, ...) :
input data must be…
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Rotate NMDS Ordination in R, Without Referencing an External Variable
I have previously had success rotating my NMDS plot with reference to an external variable via this package (https://rdrr.io/rforge/vegan/man/MDSrotate.html). However, with my current data, there is no external variable that I am able to rotate the…

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Multidimensional scaling with missing data
I've got a survey where a lot of people are randomly asked 8 out of 20 policy-based questions. I want to use MDS to bring these questions down to a single dimension to get the ideology of each of these respondents. However, because people are only…
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nMDS in R vs PRIMER
I used PRIMER v6 to plot my species data before following the steps shown in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I0zpl4v5wo&list=PL-W1dvsmEZ3KISwdig6X18dkQppJfcrYW&index=8) and get the plot below:
Now I'm trying to do the same thing using…

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Find xy coordinates of a point knowing its distance to other 2 points
I'm writing a code in R to calculate the xy coordinates of point, using the law of cosines.
I have two reference points (1 and 2) which the xy coordinates are known. I want to find the coordinates of the other point (3). I know the distances 3-1,…
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NMDS with betapart error incorrect dimensions
I have been using the vegdist to run the nmds with no issues, but now I wanted to try for betapart to get the turnover and nestedness. So I tried this code below and got the following error when I tried to run the scores code to then plug into the…
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How to link a dissimilarity matrix to metadata so I can plot an MDS with colored points in R?
I have a data matrix as a .csv (output from sourmash). The matrix looks something like this: matrix
I also have metadata that corresponds with that matrix. It groups the samples represented in the matrix several different ways. It looks something…

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Vector embeddings to mimic a ranking algorithm
Consider a search system where the user submits a query ‘query’ and retrieves products based on some ranking algorithm. Assume that these products are ordered according to their quality such that p_0, p_1, …, p_10 and so on.
I would like to generate…

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Manipulate plot using smacof funcition
I am trying to do some MDS analysis using the eurodist dataset, however when I plot the configurations I get un upside-down graph:
When I am on classical MDS I can obviate to this by make a reflection on the x-axis with:
X2D=cmdscale(EurDistances,…

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