Topological data analysis provides a collection of tools to encapsulate and summarize the shape of data. Currently it is mainly restricted to \emph{mapper algorithm} and \emph{persistent homology}. In this paper we introduce new mapper--inspired descriptor that can be applied for exploratory data analysis.
@article{arxiv.1901.07410,
title = {Ball mapper: a shape summary for topological data analysis},
author = {Paweł Dłotko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.07410},
year = {2019}
}