<ul><li>Misuses of t-SNE and UMAP in visual analytics have become increasingly common.</li><li>Practitioners often use t-SNE and UMAP projections to investigate inter-cluster relationships even though these projections may not reflect true distances between clusters accurately.</li><li>The misuse of t-SNE and UMAP is attributed to limited discourse on their appropriate use in visual analytics.</li><li>A literature review of 114 papers and an interview study were conducted to verify the prevalence of misuse and understand practitioners' motivations for using these techniques.</li></ul>

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