# t-SNE > t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding. t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding. A [statistical](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Statistics.txt) method for visualizing high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map. It is based on [Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (paper)](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Stochastic%20Neighbor%20Embedding%20(paper.txt)) originally developed by and , where Laurens van der Maaten proposed the t-distributed variant. It is a nonlinear technique for embedding high-dimensional data for visualization in a low-dimensional space of two or three dimensions.[^1] ## Footnotes [^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-distributed_stochastic_neighbor_embedding