The Warrior Atlas is an interactive map of 2,441 UFC fighters. Every dot is one fighter, and a dot's position comes from that fighter's career statistics — striking volume and accuracy, takedowns, control time, submission and knockout rates, durability and physical attributes — compressed to two dimensions with t-SNE. Fighters with similar statistical profiles therefore land near each other, so distance on the map measures statistical similarity, not ranking, record or skill.
Colour and icon mark the 32 Statistics Groupings — clusters found with k-means over the same statistics, each named after the two attributes that stand out most (for example “High control time, High takedowns landed”); every fighter is assigned to the nearest grouping. Use the search button at the top left to jump to a fighter by name, tap a grouping in the legend to isolate the map to just that group, and use the minimum-fights and most-recent-fight sliders to hide low-sample or long-retired fighters. Clicking a dot opens that fighter's profile with their full career statistics and our prediction history. The map itself is drawn in an HTML5 canvas and needs JavaScript.