Two topographic maps for data visualisation

  • Authors:
  • Colin Fyfe

  • Affiliations:
  • Applied Computational Intelligence Research Unit, The University of Paisley, Paisley, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We review a new form of self-organizing map which is based on a nonlinear projection of latent points into data space, identical to that performed in the Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) [Bishop et al. (1997) Neurl Comput 10(1): 215---234]. But whereas the GTM is an extension of a mixture of experts, our new model is an extension of a product of experts [Hinton (2000) Technical report GCNU TR 2000-004, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College, London]. We show visualisation results on some real data sets and compare with the GTM. We then introduce a second mapping based on harmonic averages and show that it too creates a topographic mapping of the data. We compare these mappings on real and artificial data sets.