Carlsson has developed methods from applied topology to do clustering work. Robert Ghrist called a talk about this "Clusterfunctor" since it involves a functor from metric spaces to "persistent sets". It's talked about in Topology and DataTopology and Data, a survey article about using topology to do data analysis.
Updated link to published paper; preprint not displaying since CompTop at Stanford seems to be down
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