Table 2 Time for sorting in seconds for all three introduced sorting methods: sparsity-based sorting, seriation-based sorting implemented by Hahsler et al. [16] and Jaccard-based sorting using the Jaccard-index [15]. Measurements for the three TMT datasets. Computed sequentially on an Intel Xeon Gold 6226, 2.70 GHz, 2 × 12 compute cores, 96 GB RAM