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. 2013 Nov 5;110(45):18031-2.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1317797110. Epub 2013 Oct 21.

Making sense of big data

Patrick J Wolfe  1
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Making sense of big data

Patrick J Wolfe. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Global structure from local information (after ref. 10). (A) Two views of a prototypical point cloud taking the shape of a 3D fishbowl. (B) A close-up of the graph that is induced by connecting neighboring points on the bottom of the fishbowl via a Delaunay triangulation. (C) A successful unfolding of the fishbowl structure into two dimensions, based on using this graph structure to approximate geodesic paths. Note how the unfolding respects the original orientation of the data points relative to one another, as denoted by their coloring.
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  • Spectral multidimensional scaling.
    Aflalo Y, Kimmel R. Aflalo Y, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Nov 5;110(45):18052-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1308708110. Epub 2013 Oct 9. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013. PMID: 24108352 Free PMC article.

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