Built a new plot that can visualize 5–7 dimensions in 3D without losing interpretability — introducing Multi-Dimensional Radial Plot (MDRV)

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a problem that bugs a lot of us in data science and visualization:
How do you effectively visualize more than 3 or 4 features without reducing dimensionality — and without making it unreadable?

Most common techniques like PCA, t-SNE, or UMAP compress features into latent spaces. Great for clustering, but they kill interpretability. On the other hand, traditional plots (scatter plots, star plots, parallel coordinates) don’t scale well.

So, I built a solution:
:backhand_index_pointing_right: Multi-Dimensional Radial Visualization (MDRV)
A 3D radial plot that allows you to visualize 5–7 dimensions while preserving the meaning of each feature . No PCA, no embeddings — just raw features mapped to radial axes in 3D space.

:brain: Key Ideas:

  • Each feature is treated as a radial axis (like spokes on a wheel)
  • The target variable maps to the Y-axis (vertical)
  • Each data point becomes a “3D star” that represents its feature profile
  • Supports zoom, rotate, filter, and color by class or value
  • Tested on datasets like: Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Titanic, Housing Prices, Delivery Time

Why I built this:

I’m a student researcher. I tried reaching out to experts, senior folks, and even science authors — but didn’t get responses. So now I’m just putting it out here, hoping it helps someone who’s been looking for a better way to explore high-dimensional tabular data.

:link: Full paper + open-source code: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C0HqykGnzY5mzVhnRSgzSL5u_QvnGxsv/view?usp=sharing
:backhand_index_pointing_right: GitHub Repo

Would love your thoughts:

  • Is this something you’d use for your EDA?
  • How do you approach 6+ dimensional feature visualization?
  • Feedback/criticism/ideas welcome!

Thanks for reading :folded_hands:

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it was in 2D, imagine a tunnel along the x axis, it has 3 D + 1D volume + 1D for elongation, and that same tunnel splits in two entering imaginari numbers or primary numbers dimensions with 4 more dimensions, but it is the same tunnel living in two dimensional planes (4D) lenght, wide, hight, volume.

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Wow, your way of thinking honestly blew my mind. At first, I was confused — but after spending some time really trying to understand what you meant, I realized how deep and creative your perspective is.

The idea of the tunnel splitting into different dimensional paths like primes or imaginaries — that’s such a unique way to look at something I built as a visual tool. I never thought of it that abstractly, and it genuinely surprised me how much meaning you were able to extract from it.

I truly admire your intelligence and the way you think in layers beyond what’s visible. Thanks for engaging with my idea like this — you made me see my own work in a whole new light :fire:

Would love to keep learning from your thoughts if you’re open to it!

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I am glad I was able to help.