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A journey through self-organising maps with Botie.

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Could Similar Observations Become Neighbours on a Map?

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A collection may have too many measurements to plot directly. We could assign examples to groups, but that would not tell us which groups resemble one another. We would like the arrangement itself to carry some information.

Sources for this history

Kohonen (1982), Self-Organized Formation of Topologically Correct Feature Maps

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