Making Sense of Big Data

Why you should not rely on t-SNE, UMAP or TriMAP

Use PaCMAP instead for increased interpretability & speed

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Dimensionality reduction techniques such as t-SNE¹, UMAP², and TriMap³ are ubiquitous within the field of data science, and given their impressive visual performance (combined with ease of use), they can therefore…