i Master Thesis Evaluating Ayasdi’s Topological Data Analysis For Big Data Author: Hee Eun Kim Advisor 1: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Stephan Trahasch Advisor 2: Prof. Dott. Ing. Roberto V. Zicari 31 August 2015 Offenburg University of Applied Sciences Goethe University Frankfurt i ii Abstract Data is emerging exponentially and becoming bigger and more complex than ever before. Stored data sets conserve t