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title: 'popsom7: A Fast, User-Friendly Implementation of Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs)'
version: 7.1.0
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.popsom7
abstract: 'Methods for building self-organizing maps (SOMs) with a number of distinguishing
  features such automatic centroid detection and cluster visualization using starbursts.
  For more details see the paper "Improved Interpretability of the Unified Distance
  Matrix with Connected Components" by Hamel and Brown (2011) in <ISBN:1-60132-168-6>.
  The package provides user-friendly access to two models we construct: (a) a SOM
  model and (b) a centroid based clustering model. The package also exposes a number
  of quality metrics for the quantitative evaluation of the map, Hamel (2016) <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28518-4_4>.
  Finally, we reintroduced our fast, vectorized training algorithm for SOM with substantial
  improvements. It is about an order of magnitude faster than the canonical, stochastic
  C implementation <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01057-7_60>.'
authors:
- family-names: Hamel
  given-names: Lutz
  email: lutzhamel@uri.edu
- family-names: Ott
  given-names: Benjamin
- family-names: Breard
  given-names: Gregory
- family-names: Tatoian
  given-names: Robert
- family-names: Eiger
  given-names: Michael
- family-names: Gopu
  given-names: Vishakh
repository: https://lutzhamel.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/lutzhamel/popsom7
commit: ff552b1103277ae5fdb8ec2e545e02bc11f9ed0d
url: https://github.com/lutzhamel/popsom7
date-released: '2025-03-02'
contact:
- family-names: Hamel
  given-names: Lutz
  email: lutzhamel@uri.edu