Graduation Year
2016
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Department
Mathematics
Reader 1
Weiqing Gu
Reader 2
Dagan Karp
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Abstract
The increasing importance of data in the modern world has created a need for new mathematical techniques to analyze this data. We explore and develop the use of geometry—specifically differential geometry—as a means for such analysis, in two parts. First, we provide a general framework to discover patterns contained in time series data using a geometric framework of assigning distance, clustering, and then forecasting. Second, we attempt to define a Riemannian metric on the space containing the data in order to introduce a notion of distance intrinsic to the data, providing a novel way to probe the data for insight.
Recommended Citation
Chu, Casey, "The Geometry of Data: Distance on Data Manifolds" (2016). HMC Senior Theses. 74.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/74
Source Fulltext
https://www.math.hmc.edu/~cchu/thesis/cchu-2016-thesis.pdf
