“…Topological data analysis (TDA) has witnessed many important advances over the last twenty years that aim to unravel and provide insight to the "shape" of the data (Edelsbrunner et al, 2002;Edelsbrunner and Harer, 2008;Wasserman, 2018;Chazal and Michel, 2021). The development of TDA tools such as barcodes and persistence diagrams (Ghrist, 2008;Bubenik, 2015;Adams et al, 2017) have opened many new perspectives for analyzing various types of data (Umeda, 2017;Gholizadeh and Zadrozny, 2018;Motta, 2018;Xu et al, 2021;Leykam and Angelakis, 2023). These tools enable practitioners to grasp the topological characteristics inherent in high-dimensional data, which often remain beyond the reach of classical data analysis methods.…”