Self-Organizing Maps and Their Applications to Data Analysis
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Self-Organizing Maps(SOMs) are a form of unsupervised neural network that are used for visualization and exploratory data analysis of high dimensional datasets. Our goal was to understand how we can use a SOM to gain insights about datasets. We do this by first understanding the initialization, training, error metrics, and convergence properties of the SOM. Next we discuss the ways to interpret and visualize a Self-Organizing Map. Finally we used real datasets to understand what the Self-Organizing Map can tell us about labeled and unlabeled data. Based on experiments with our datasets we found that the Self-Organizing Map can tell us about the spacing and position of high dimensional clusters, help us find non-linear patterns, and give us insight into the shape of our data.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1566795
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-TR-791165; 989807
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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