Use precomputed matrix of distances

[aaolaveh]

Hi Matt, I don’t know if this count as an issue, by anyway ..

In your documentation it is said

The data can be specified at initialization, or later using the use_data method. The format of the data must be either a matrix of coordinate values or a function which returns a matrix of coordinate values.

Is there a way such that the input is a distance matrix of my data?. As you know, the interesting part of Mapper is being able to use data that is not necessarily in an Euclidean space but has a distance function

Thanks and best regards!

[peekxc]

Hi @Sandyaoh

I'll work on getting a distance matrix option incorporated, perhaps by tmrw.

In the meantime, you can use any distance measure in the proxy package. I believe you can actually make your own distance measure in the registry of the proxy package and call it there.

I'll work on making an example + incoporating a dist object tmrw