K-means Clustering Clearly Explained

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SciPy Cluster - K-Means Clustering and Hierarchical Clustering

SciPy is the most efficient open-source library in python. The main purpose is to compute mathematical and scientific problems. There are many sub-packages in SciPy which further increases its functionality. This is a very important package for data interpretation. We can segregate clusters from the data set. We can perform clustering using a single or multi-cluster. Initially, we generate the data set. Then we perform clustering on the data set. Let us learn more SciPy Clusters.

K-means Clustering

It is a method that can employ to determine clusters and their center. We can use this process on the raw data set. We can define a cluster when the points inside the cluster have the minimum distance when we compare it to points outside the cluster. The k-means method operates in two steps, given an initial set of k-centers,

• We define the cluster data points for the given cluster center. The points are such that they are closer to the cluster center than any other center.
• We then calculate the mean for all the data points. The mean value then becomes the new cluster center.

The process iterates until the center value becomes constant. We then fix and assign the center value. The implementation of this process is very accurate using the SciPy library.

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Understanding Core Data Science Algorithms: K-Means and K-Medoids Clustering

This article provides an overview of core data science algorithms used in statistical data analysis, specifically k-means and k-medoids clustering.

Clustering is one of the major techniques used for statistical data analysis.

As the term suggests, “clustering” is defined as the process of gathering similar objects into different groups or distribution of datasets into subsets with a defined distance measure.

K-means clustering is touted as a foundational algorithm every data scientist ought to have in their toolbox. The popularity of the algorithm in the data science industry is due to its extraordinary features:

• Simplicity
• Speed
• Efficiency

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Master KMeans clustering basics

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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Authentication In MEAN Stack - A Quick Guide

I consider myself an active StackOverflow user, despite my activity tends to vary depending on my daily workload. I enjoy answering questions with angular tag and I always try to create some working example to prove correctness of my answers.

To create angular demo I usually use either plunker or stackblitz or even jsfiddle. I like all of them but when I run into some errors I want to have a little bit more usable tool to undestand what’s going on.

Many people who ask questions on stackoverflow don’t want to isolate the problem and prepare minimal reproduction so they usually post all code to their questions on SO. They also tend to be not accurate and make a lot of mistakes in template syntax. To not waste a lot of time investigating where the error comes from I tried to create a tool that will help me to quickly find what causes the problem.

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There are template parser errors that can be easy catched by stackblitz

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Introduction to k-Means Clustering

Cluster is a group of objects which have similar properties and belong to the same class.

What is Clustering?

Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique which is used to make clusters of objects i.e. it is a technique to group objects of similar kind in a group. In clustering, we first partition the set of data into groups based on the similarity and then assign the labels to those groups. Also, it helps us to find out various useful features that can help in distinguishing between different groups.

Types of Clustering

Most common categories of clustering are:-

• Partitioning Method
• Hierarchical Method
• Density-based Method
• Grid-based Method
• Model-based Method

Partitioning Method

Partitioning method classifies the group of n objects into groups based on the features and similarity of data.

The general problem would be like that we will have ‘n’ objects and we need to construct ‘k’ partitions among the data objects where each partition represents a cluster and will contain at least one object. Also, there is an additional condition that says each object can belong to only one group.

The partitioning method starts by creating an initial random partitioning. Then it iterates to improve the partitioning by moving the objects from one partition to another.

k-Means clustering follows the partitioning approach to classify the data.

Hierarchical Method

The hierarchical method performs a hierarchical decomposition of the given set of data objects. It starts by considering every data point as a separate cluster and then iteratively identifies two clusters which can be closest together and then merge these two clusters into one. We continue this until all the clusters are merged together into a single big cluster. A diagram called **Dendrogram **is used torepresent this hierarchy.

There are two approaches depending on how we create the hierarchy −

• Agglomerative Approach
• Divisive Approach

Agglomerative Approach

Agglomerative approach is a type of hierarchical method which uses bottom-up strategy. We start with each object considering as a separate cluster and keeps on merging the objects that are close to one another. It keep on doing so until all of the groups are merged into one or until the termination condition holds.

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