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Data Geometry

This topic is about how data forms hidden shapes.

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Data geometry asks what shape data has when there are too many dimensions to draw directly.

This strand should help students see that data is not just rows in a table: it has geometry, shape and structure.

Explore this through clustering, distance and similarity, projection and dimensionality reduction, principal component analysis and variation.

Further exploration

Look up: principal component analysis

Explore next: clustering and distance metrics

Try searching for: nearest-neighbour classification