It's time to stop making t-SNE & UMAP plots. In a new preprint w/ Tara Chari we show that while they display some correlation with the underlying high-dimension data, they don't preserve local or global structure & are misleading. They're also arbitrary.🧵https://t.co/XkAOTKlOcs https://t.co/dmFzD5RR6R

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It's time to stop making t-SNE & UMAP plots. In a new preprint w/ Tara Chari we show that while they display some correlation with the underlying high-dimension data, they don't preserve local or global structure & are misleading. They're also arbitrary.🧵https://t.co/XkAOTKlOcs https://t.co/dmFzD5RR6R

— Lior Pachter (@lpachter) Aug 27, 2021

It's time to stop making t-SNE & UMAP plots. In a new preprint w/ Tara Chari we show that while they display some correlation with the underlying high-dimension data, they don't preserve local or global structure & are misleading. They're also arbitrary.🧵https://t.co/XkAOTKlOcs https://t.co/dmFzD5RR6R http://twitter.com/lpachter/status/1431325969411821572 https://t.co/XkAOTKlOcs August 28, 2021 at 03:41AM