Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques (eBook)

This book proposes tools for analysis of multidimensional and metric data, by establishing a state-of-the-art of the existing solutions and developing new ones. It mainly focuses on visual exploration of these data by a human analyst, relying on a 2D or 3D scatter plot display obtained through Dimensionality Reduction. 

After his PhD degree in biomathematics from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Sylvain Lespinats held postdoc positions at several institutions, including INSERM (the French National Institute of Medical Reseach), INREST (the French National Insistute of Transport and Security Research), and some universities and research institutes. He is currently a permanent researcher at CEA-INES (the French National Institute of Solar Energy) near Chambery.  He is the author or co-author of about 50 papers and more then ten patents. His work is dedicated to providing ad hoc approaches for data mining and knowledge discovery to his colleagues in various fields, including genomics, virology, quantitiative sociology, transport security, solar energy forecasting, solar plang security, and battery diagnosis. Dr. Lespinats's scientific interests include the exhibition of spatial structures in high dimensional data. In that framework, he developed several non-linear mapping methods and worked on the local evaluation of mappings. Recently he mainly focuses on renewable data to contribute to energy transition.