In this episode, In Plain English joins the discourse on the All of Us Genomics project and their use of UMAP, an algorithm that reduces complex data to 2 dimensions. Join guests Konrad Kording, William Lima, and Jake Walker to learn why this mathematical model made such a splash on Twitter, and how scientists can analyze and communicate large data sets more rigorously. See how UMAP works on randomly generated data: https://koerding.github.io/umap-web-app/
See the papers and other resources discussed in this article: https://inplainenglishpod.org/2024/12/10/season-4-episode-3-the-umap-algorithm-look-pretty-and-do-as-little-as-possible/
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