ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Sammon mapping

Sammon mapping is a way of making a picture or map out of a bunch of data that made up of numbers and words. It takes the data that we have and draws lines between them to show how similar or different they are from each other. It's kind of like a dot-to-dot puzzle. The size of the dots and the lines between them show how different each one is. The map is made to show the similarities and differences in the data.