Distance Transformation
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.. figure:: icons/distance-transformation.png

Transforms distances in a data set. 

Signals
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**Inputs**:

-  **Distances**

   A distance matrix

**Outputs**:

-  **Distances**

   A distance matrix

Description
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The **Distances Transformation** widget is used for the normalization and inversion of distance matrices. The normalization of data is necessary to bring all the variables into proportion with one another. 

.. figure:: images/DistanceTransformation-stamped.png 

1. Choose the type of `Normalization <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_(statistics)>`_:

   - **No normalization**
   - **To interval [0, 1]**
   - **To interval [-1, 1]**
   - `Sigmoid function <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function>`_: 1/(1+exp(-X)) 

2. Choose the type of Inversion: 

   - **No inversion**
   - **-X**
   - **1 - X**
   - **max(X) - X**
   - **1/X**

3. Produce a report. 
4. After changing the settings, you need to click *Apply* to commit changes to other widgets. Alternatively, tick *Apply automatically*.

Example
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In the snapshot below, you can see how transformation affects the distance matrix. We loaded the *Iris* data set and calculated the distances between rows with the help of the :doc:`Distances <../unsupervised/distances>` widget. In order to demonstrate how **Distance Transformation** affects the :doc:`Distance Matrix <../unsupervised/distancematrix>`, we created the worflow below and compared the transformed distance matrix with the "original" one. 

.. figure:: images/DistanceTransformation-Example.png