“Ayasdi, a company that has developed data visualization software it says uses big data to answer the questions you never thought to ask…Their new product is called the Iris Insight Discovery platform. It’s a type of machine learning that uses hundreds of algorithms and topological data analysis to mine huge datasets before presenting the results in a visually accessible way. Using algebraic topology, the system automatically hunts down data points close in nature and maps these out to reveal a network of patterns for a researcher to decipher…”

via Data-Visualization Firm’s New Software Autonomously Finds Abstract Connections | Wired Design | Wired.com.