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Moving Towards KDearestNeighbors with Leland McInnes - creator of UMAP
57 minutes Posted May 30, 2024 at 8:20 am.
How to explain UMAP
UMAP in an art museum
The goal of UMAP
PyNNDescent
KNN is amazing
Next steps for KNN
Next steps for KNN
Being a maintainer
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Leland McInnes is known for a lot of packages. There's UMAP, but also PyNNDescent and HDBScan. Recently he's also been working on tools to help visualise clusters of data and he's also cooking up something new that's related to nearest neighbor algorithms. This interview touches all of these topics.

If you're interested in learning more about the MoMA exhibition, it was by Refik Anadol: https://refikanadol.com/ and this was the work at MoMA: https://refikanadol.com/works/unsupervised/.

The other artist was Kyle McDonald: https://kylemcdonald.net/ and the piece we mentioned was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04DqdT0-NtI.