UMAP - simple explanation with an example!

In this video, I will give you an easy and practical explanation of Unifold Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) and how to use it to visualise biological datasets. You can also find a step by step explanation here: https://biostatsquid.com/umap-simply-explained/ Hope you like it! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watched it already? If you liked this video or found it useful, please let me know! Your comments and feedback are very much appreciated😊 If you have questions, don't hesitate to leave me a comment down below, I will answer as soon as I can:) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more biostatistics tools and resources, you can visit: https://biostatsquid.com/ for more • simple and clear explanations of biostatistics methods • computational biology tools • easy step-by-step tutorials in R and Python To analyse and visualise your biological data! Or follow me on Instagram at @biostatsquid: https://www.instagram.com/biostatsquid/ Don’t forget to subscribe if you don’t want to miss another video from me! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More UMAP resources: If you would like to know more about UMAP, check out: UMAP: a really cool webpage which compares t-SNE and UMAP. You can play around with the hyperparameters and how they affect the 2D UMAP https://pair-code.github.io/understanding-umap/ projection of a wooly mammoth! UMAP: a simple explanation of the key concept in UMAP. https://alleninstitute.org/resource/what-is-a-umap/ A deeper dive into the maths behing UMAP. https://topos.institute/blog/2024-04-05-understanding-umap/