Visualizing the geometry of labeled high-dimensional data with spheres
Andrew D Zaharia, Anish S Potnis, Alexander Walther, Nikolaus, Kriegeskorte

TL;DR
H2S is a novel visualization method that represents labeled high-dimensional data distributions as hyperspheres, effectively capturing their geometry and relationships in lower dimensions, and is robust to sampling imbalances.
Contribution
This paper introduces H2S, a new technique that visualizes relationships between labeled distributions as hyperspheres, preserving geometric properties in reduced dimensions.
Findings
H2S accurately captures sizes, separations, and overlaps of distributions.
The method works well with up to 4 hyperspheres in 3D.
H2S is robust to sampling imbalances.
Abstract
Data visualizations summarize high-dimensional distributions in two or three dimensions. Dimensionality reduction entails a loss of information, and what is preserved differs between methods. Existing methods preserve the local or the global geometry of the points, and most techniques do not consider labels. Here we introduce "hypersphere2sphere" (H2S), a new method that aims to visualize not the points, but the relationships between the labeled distributions. H2S fits a hypersphere to each labeled set of points in a high-dimensional space and visualizes each hypersphere as a sphere in 3D (or circle in 2D). H2S perfectly captures the geometry of up to 4 hyperspheres in 3D (or 3 in 2D), and approximates the geometry for larger numbers of distributions, matching the sizes (radii), and the pairwise separations (between-center distances) and overlaps (along the center-connection line). The…
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Taxonomy
TopicsData Visualization and Analytics · Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research · Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
