# Spark Mapper

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Mapper is a topological data anlysis technique for estimating a lower dimensional simplicial complex from a dataset. It was initially described in the paper "Topological Methods for the Analysis of High Dimensional Data Sets and 3D Object Recognition." [1]

# Related Software

- [Python Mapper](http://danifold.net/mapper/index.html)
- [TDA Mapper (R)](https://github.com/paultpearson/TDAmapper/)

# References

1. G. Singh, F. Memoli, G. Carlsson (2007). Topological Methods for the Analysis of High Dimensional Data Sets and 3D Object Recognition, Point Based Graphics 2007, Prague, September 2007.
2. Daniel Müllner and Aravindakshan Babu, Python Mapper: An open-source toolchain for data exploration, analysis and visualization, 2013, URL http://danifold.net/mapper

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