What role does the text assign to Peter Sneath (1957) in the development of the heatmap's analytical structure?

Answer

He linked statistical ordering methods to the visual format using permutation techniques.

Peter Sneath solidified the link between statistical ordering methods and visualization by using permutation techniques to place similar rows and columns adjacent to each other based on cluster analysis results.

What role does the text assign to Peter Sneath (1957) in the development of the heatmap's analytical structure?
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