Mr Lather Man
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THE LAB

Every bar, plotted.

A data view of every reviewed bar. Brush a region or click a soap; the rest react.

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I · THE OVERVIEW

Where every bar lives in two dimensions, and who currently holds the trophy on each axis.

01 · SCATTER

Lather against skin-feel

The two axes the man cares about most. Top-right is the dream; bottom-left is regret.

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02 · PODIUMS

First, second, third on each axis

Lather, scent, value, lasts, skin. The whole shelf, ranked five ways.

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II · THE FINGERPRINT

Same five axes, two ways of reading them. The shape of each soap and the stripe pattern that tells them apart at a glance.

03 · PARALLEL COORDINATES

The five axes, side by side

Each soap is one line crossing all five scores. Spotted patterns: cheap bars dip on value, premium bars peak on scent.

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04 · DNA BARCODE

One stripe per sub-score

Hover a soap to sort the rest by similarity. The barcode pattern is each bar's signature.

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III · THE FAMILIES

Soaps cluster by smell. The flow chart shows which families end up in which scoring band. The circle shows which notes keep arriving together.

05 · SANKEY

Scent family flows to band

Citrus, woody, herbal, floral. Which families land in A and which in C.

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06 · CHORD

Notes that travel together

Two notes appearing in the same soap pull a thread between them.

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IV · THE PHYSICALITY

Before the perfume and the marketing, a soap is a lump of fat. Hard or soft, white or beige, long-lasting or melts in a week.

07 · HARDNESS × LONGEVITY

Does rock-hard mean long-lasting?

Dot size is price. The diagonal is the line you'd expect; the outliers are the interesting ones.

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08 · BAR COLOUR

The shelf, in colour

A dot in each bar's real colour, sized by overall score. The shelf as a swatch.

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V · THE STARS

Reduce every soap's five-axis identity to two co-ordinates and plot them. Bars that score similarly end up next to each other.

09 · CONSTELLATION

PCA on the score vector

Hover a star to see its three nearest neighbours light up.

Hover to reveal neighbour lines.
VI · THE VIBE

The words the man wrote when scoring each bar. Most-used words sit larger and warmer.

10 · VIBE CLOUD

What the shelf feels like

Every vibe word the man has typed, sized by how often it shows up.

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11 · ROULETTE

Pick me a soap at random

Click the wheel.

Built with SVG primitives. The dataset invalidates when review scores change.