Fast and user-friendly non-linear principal manifold learning by method of elastic maps

Method of elastic maps allows fast learning of nonlinear principal manifolds for large datasets. We present user-friendly implementation of the method in ViDaExpert software. Equipped with several dialogs for configuring data point representations (size, shape, color) and fast 3D viewer, ViDaExpert is a handy tool allowing to construct an interactive 3D-scene representing a table of data in multidimensional space and perform its quick and insightfull statistical analysis, from basic to advanced methods. We list several recent application examples of manifold learning by method of elastic maps in various fields of life sciences.