http://www.iamwire.com/2016/11/how-to-do-machine-learning-in-a-week/143288
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
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A self-organizing map (SOM) or self-organizing feature map (SOFM) is a type of artificial neural network (ANN) that is trained using unsupervised learning to produce a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional), discretized representation of the input space of the training samples, called a map.
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/06w259/projs/cs/MAT259-paper.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map