AUTHOR=Chazal Frédéric , Michel Bertrand TITLE=An Introduction to Topological Data Analysis: Fundamental and Practical Aspects for Data Scientists JOURNAL=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence VOLUME=Volume 4 - 2021 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2021.667963 DOI=10.3389/frai.2021.667963 ISSN=2624-8212 ABSTRACT=Topological Data Analysis (TDA ) is a recent and fast growing field providing a set of new topological and geometric tools to infer relevant features for possibly complex data. This paper is a brief introduction, through a few selected topics, to basic fundamental and practical aspects of TDA for non experts.