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CONTENTS ix<br />

5.5 Experiments & Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />

5.5.1 Experiment Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />

5.5.2 Experiment Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

5.5.3 Cold Start Item Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />

5.5.4 Model Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

5.6 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

III Visualization of Large Data Sets 109<br />

6 Multidimensional Scal<strong>in</strong>g for Large Data Sets 111<br />

6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111<br />

6.2 MDS by Iterative Majorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />

6.3 Sparse Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

6.3.1 Structured Data Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

6.3.2 Unconnected Subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

6.4 Large Scale MDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

6.5 Choos<strong>in</strong>g Dissimilarity Measures and Weights <strong>in</strong> Large Scale MDS . . . . . . . 121<br />

6.6 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

6.6.1 Swiss Roll Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

6.6.2 Thesaurus Data Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126<br />

6.7 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128<br />

7 Discussion 133<br />

7.1 Summary and Discussion of the Ma<strong>in</strong> F<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133<br />

7.2 Directions for Future Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135<br />

Nederlandse Samenvatt<strong>in</strong>g (Summary <strong>in</strong> Dutch) 139<br />

Bibliography 143<br />

Author Index 155<br />

Curriculum Vitae 161

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