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Even though Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) constitute a powerful and essential tool for pattern recognition and data mining, the common SOM algorithm is not apt for processing categorical data, which is present in many real datasets. It is for this reason that the categorical values are commonly converted into a binary code, a solution that unfortunately distorts the network training and the posterior...
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