Projection pursuit

Projection pursuit is like a game where you need to find the best way to see things. Just like how you might climb a tree to get a better view of a park or jump on a chair to see over a crowd, projection pursuit helps us find the best way to look at big sets of data to understand it better.

Imagine you have a bunch of toys in a big toy chest, but you can't see them all at once because the chest is closed. You can only see one toy at a time by pulling it out, but there are so many toys that it's hard to find the best one to play with. Projection pursuit helps us to see all the toys at once by making a hole in the toy chest and shining a light inside. This way, we can see all of the toys at the same time, but some of them are closer to the light so they look bigger and some are farther away so they look smaller. But if we move the light around or try different angles, we can see all of the toys better and get a better idea of which toy we want to play with.

Projection pursuit is like turning on the light in the toy chest. It helps us to see all the different parts of a big set of data all at once by breaking it down into smaller and easier to understand pieces. By doing this, we can find patterns and understand things better. Projection pursuit can be used in many different fields, like math, science, and economics, to help people make sense of lots of information.