Self organising Maps - Explanation required in layman terms

Question

Hi, I need to develop a flash tutorial on Self organizing maps (in neural networks) to make people understand it easily. I need some good example so that even a beginner can understand it easily. Please help me with some examples, links with simple examples.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This is a pretty decent tutorial on SOM:

http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/som/som1.html