Each point is one Bible book. Books in the top-right would support the Oxfordian claim — many marks and many Shakespeare references. There are none.
Oxford’s Geneva Bible
Introduction
:::{.drop-cap} Minard’s famous 1869 chart of Napoleon’s Russian campaign condensed a military catastrophe into a single image that no prose account could match. By showing six variables simultaneously (army size, location, direction, temperature, time, and the devastating attrition) in a single image it visualised the scale, duration, cause and result of the disaster in a single image.. The most famous false grail in Authorship quests for authenticity must be Roger Stritmatter’s 10-year quest to link a genuine authorship artefact, an annotated copy of the Geneva Bible owned by De Vere, and connect the annotation in its margins to Bible references in Shakespeare.
The first time we tackled his claim that the annotations demonstrated a non random relationship with the canon we collected the data, defined its boundaries, cleaned its contents, threw out the broken elements and made lots of tables refuting lots of claims that were commonly made by Oxfordians after Stritmatter published his thesis. We used R-Studio to make table and charts and the demolition of the idea that there was any relationship at all ended up taking ip more than 10% of the space on Oxfraud.
This time around we tried to take a leaf from Minard’s work and simplify something visual to the point where you could take in the absence of a relationship in a single glance. Technology has moved on. AI can sit at your shoulder and fix your plotting mistakes, make suggestions and do things in minutes with data that would have taken days ten years ago and weeks or months back in the 90s.
One scatter chart does the job
The scatter: marks vs references
{Each point represents one bible book with its collection of marks and references. For there to be any promise of a relationship, the dots should come together toward the top right of the chart, showing a preponderance of share interest. The chart shows the precise opposite. The are where any relationship should show is completely blank. The chart is interactive, you can scale, zoom, reveal the data behine each point one mouseover but however long you spend, you can not even begin to imagine a relationship between marks and references that connectors the annotators of the Bible to the author of the plays.}
Chart 2 — The dashboard: chapter by chapter
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The complete data: all Bible books
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