Re: DM: Origami: A New Data Visualization Tool

[Warren Sarle]

> At the AFCEA International Federal Data Mining Symposium=20
> and Exposition '99, on March 9-10 at the McLean Hilton in Tysons 
>Corner,
> Virginia,
> 
> Dr. Jen Q. Louie and Thomas Kraay will present:
> 
> Origami:=A0 A New Data Visualization Tool
> ... The
> two unique features of Origami are a user-defined metric which 
>defines
> a =93distance=94 between data elements, and the ability to 
>construct a=20
> plot of the data elements that approximately preserves the 
>computed=20
> distances.=A0 

What's unique about that? That's just what multidimensional scaling 
does.

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