.. _example_manifold_plot_mds.py:


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Multi-dimensional scaling
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An illustration of the metric and non-metric MDS on generated noisy data.

The reconstructed points using the metric MDS and non metric MDS are slightly
shifted to avoid overlapping.



.. image:: images/plot_mds_001.png
    :align: center




**Python source code:** :download:`plot_mds.py <plot_mds.py>`

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**Total running time of the example:**  0.20 seconds
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