An interesting feature of much modern Big Data is that the data we collect, or the data we want to analyze, are not necessarily in the traditional matrix or array form familiar from our textbooks. They may be coerced to such a format for relative ease of analysis, but this is not a strong justification. Past columns have explored new methods that exploit the natural structure of such data sets more directly. Topological data analysis (TDA) is one such method.
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