statistics

self-organizing map

also: self-organising map, SOM, Kohonen map

Neural network that places observations on a grid while preserving their neighborhoods.

Classification

statistics
the name evokes: eponym

Attestation

English definition: Cook & Laa, Interactively Exploring High-Dimensional Data and Models in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026

Sources (6)

20 occurrences in the corpus

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/self-organizing-map.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. self-organizing map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/self-organizing-map.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-self-organizing-map,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {self-organizing map},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/self-organizing-map.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.