Types of Clustering:

Clustering comes under the data mining topic and there is a lot of research going on in this field and there exist many clustering algorithms.

The following are the main types of clustering algorithms.

1. K-Means
2. Hierarchical clustering
3. DBSCAN

Applications of Clustering:

Following are some of the applications of clustering

1. Customer Segmentation: This is one of the most important use-cases of clustering in the sales and marketing domain. Here the aim is to group people or customers based on some similarities so that they can come up with different action items for the people in different groups. One example could be, amazon giving different offers to different people based on their buying patterns.
2. Image Segmentation: Clustering is used in image segmentation where similar image pixels are grouped together. Pixels of different objects in the image are grouped together.

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