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Visualizing Data Using t-SNE

Google TechTalks · talk · Watch on YouTube

What it is

A Google Tech Talk by Laurens van der Maaten, co-creator of t-SNE, on visualizing high-dimensional data by mapping it to two dimensions. It explains how the technique works and how it compares with other visualization approaches.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people point to it as the canonical explanation from the method's author whenever t-SNE comes up.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “there's a really interesting Google techtalk on how it works”

    Interesting talk on how t-SNE works.

    a1k0n, 2013-11 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: 3d Word Vectors with Neural Networks, T-SNE, and WebGL”

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Topics: t-sne, data visualization, machine learning, high-dimensional data, embeddings

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