anthony_bak

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   by anthony_bak 9y ago

   A special case of persistent homology (0-dimensional)
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   by anthony_bak 11y ago

   For Mapper consider using PythonMapper by Daniel Müllner ( http://danifold.net/mapper/ ). The UI is touchy - I use it mostly via scripts only. Mapper is pretty simple to implement (just a series of well understood pie
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   by anthony_bak 11y ago

   Sure. Gunnar's "Topology and Data" paper (already linked to by another poster) is the first place to go for an overview of TDA (although it's getting dated). A more updated version (but behind paywall) is "Topologi
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   by anthony_bak 11y ago

   Hey. That's me. On hackernews :) Happy to answer questions here regarding TDA but am no longer with Ayasdi so won't comment on company specific stuff. The material in the video is dated but still relevant - I now have a better und
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   by anthony_bak 11y ago

   I'm a data scientist and mathematician at Ayasdi. For a variety of reasons we don't participate in competitive data science - however - we do a lot of actual science that you can use to get some idea on the power of the technique: