Implementation of Self Organizing Map using MATLAB
Keywords:
MATLAB, SOM, training set, topological relationshipAbstract
The latest versions of MATLAB are embedded with analytical tools to handle the Big Data issues. Self
Organization Map (SOM) is a vector quantification method which places the prototypes vectors on a regular low
dimensional grid in an ordered fashion. This makes SOM a powerful visualization tool for understanding a big data
set very easily. To apply this technique the given data set is cleaned first for removing the outliers. A network is
created to understand the topological relationship within the training set. This paper focuses on procedure, analysis
and interpretation of a sample dataset using MATLAB tool.