The document discusses cluster analysis, which groups data objects into clusters so that objects within a cluster are similar but dissimilar to objects in other clusters. It describes key characteristics of clustering, including that it is unsupervised learning and the clusters are determined algorithmically rather than by humans. Various clustering algorithms are covered, including partitioning, hierarchical, density-based, and grid-based methods. Applications of clustering discussed include business intelligence, image recognition, web search, outlier detection, and biology. Requirements for effective clustering in data mining are also outlined.
This document discusses various clustering analysis methods including k-means, k-medoids (PAM), and CLARA. It explains that clustering involves grouping similar objects together without predefined classes. Partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids (PAM) assign objects to clusters to optimize a criterion function. K-means uses cluster centroids while k-medoids uses actual data points as cluster representatives. PAM is more robust to outliers than k-means but does not scale well to large datasets, so CLARA applies PAM to samples of the data. Examples of clustering applications include market segmentation, land use analysis, and earthquake studies.
Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique used to group unlabeled data points together based on similarities. It aims to maximize similarity within clusters and minimize similarity between clusters. There are several clustering methods including partitioning, hierarchical, density-based, grid-based, and model-based. Clustering has many applications such as pattern recognition, image processing, market research, and bioinformatics. It is useful for extracting hidden patterns from large, complex datasets.
Clustering is the process of grouping similar objects together. It allows data to be analyzed and summarized. There are several methods of clustering including partitioning, hierarchical, density-based, grid-based, and model-based. Hierarchical clustering methods are either agglomerative (bottom-up) or divisive (top-down). Density-based methods like DBSCAN and OPTICS identify clusters based on density. Grid-based methods impose grids on data to find dense regions. Model-based clustering uses models like expectation-maximization. High-dimensional data can be clustered using subspace or dimension-reduction methods. Constraint-based clustering allows users to specify preferences.
Clustering is the process of grouping similar objects together. Hierarchical agglomerative clustering builds a hierarchy by iteratively merging the closest pairs of clusters. It starts with each document in its own cluster and successively merges the closest pairs of clusters until all documents are in one cluster, forming a dendrogram. Different linkage methods, such as single, complete, and average linkage, define how the distance between clusters is calculated during merging. Hierarchical clustering provides a multilevel clustering structure but has computational complexity of O(n3) in general.
1. Discretization involves dividing the range of continuous attributes into intervals to reduce data size. Concept hierarchy formation recursively groups low-level concepts like numeric values into higher-level concepts like age groups.
2. Common techniques for discretization and concept hierarchy generation include binning, histogram analysis, clustering analysis, and entropy-based discretization. These techniques can be applied recursively to generate hierarchies.
3. Discretization and concept hierarchies reduce data size, provide more meaningful interpretations, and make data mining and analysis easier.
Classification of common clustering algorithm and techniques, e.g., hierarchical clustering, distance measures, K-means, Squared error, SOFM, Clustering large databases.
This document discusses rule-based classification. It describes how rule-based classification models use if-then rules to classify data. It covers extracting rules from decision trees and directly from training data. Key points include using sequential covering algorithms to iteratively learn rules that each cover positive examples of a class, and measuring rule quality based on both coverage and accuracy to determine the best rules.
This document provides a short review of clustering techniques for students. It defines clustering and different types of grouping methods such as hard vs soft clustering. It discusses popular clustering algorithms like hierarchical clustering, k-means clustering, and density-based clustering. It also covers cluster validity, usability, preprocessing techniques, meta methods, and visual clustering. Open problems in clustering mentioned include how to identify outlier objects and accelerate classification.
This document discusses various clustering analysis methods including k-means, k-medoids (PAM), and CLARA. It explains that clustering involves grouping similar objects together without predefined classes. Partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids (PAM) assign objects to clusters to optimize a criterion function. K-means uses cluster centroids while k-medoids uses actual data points as cluster representatives. PAM is more robust to outliers than k-means but does not scale well to large datasets, so CLARA applies PAM to samples of the data. Examples of clustering applications include market segmentation, land use analysis, and earthquake studies.
Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique used to group unlabeled data points together based on similarities. It aims to maximize similarity within clusters and minimize similarity between clusters. There are several clustering methods including partitioning, hierarchical, density-based, grid-based, and model-based. Clustering has many applications such as pattern recognition, image processing, market research, and bioinformatics. It is useful for extracting hidden patterns from large, complex datasets.
Clustering is the process of grouping similar objects together. It allows data to be analyzed and summarized. There are several methods of clustering including partitioning, hierarchical, density-based, grid-based, and model-based. Hierarchical clustering methods are either agglomerative (bottom-up) or divisive (top-down). Density-based methods like DBSCAN and OPTICS identify clusters based on density. Grid-based methods impose grids on data to find dense regions. Model-based clustering uses models like expectation-maximization. High-dimensional data can be clustered using subspace or dimension-reduction methods. Constraint-based clustering allows users to specify preferences.
Clustering is the process of grouping similar objects together. Hierarchical agglomerative clustering builds a hierarchy by iteratively merging the closest pairs of clusters. It starts with each document in its own cluster and successively merges the closest pairs of clusters until all documents are in one cluster, forming a dendrogram. Different linkage methods, such as single, complete, and average linkage, define how the distance between clusters is calculated during merging. Hierarchical clustering provides a multilevel clustering structure but has computational complexity of O(n3) in general.
1. Discretization involves dividing the range of continuous attributes into intervals to reduce data size. Concept hierarchy formation recursively groups low-level concepts like numeric values into higher-level concepts like age groups.
2. Common techniques for discretization and concept hierarchy generation include binning, histogram analysis, clustering analysis, and entropy-based discretization. These techniques can be applied recursively to generate hierarchies.
3. Discretization and concept hierarchies reduce data size, provide more meaningful interpretations, and make data mining and analysis easier.
Classification of common clustering algorithm and techniques, e.g., hierarchical clustering, distance measures, K-means, Squared error, SOFM, Clustering large databases.
This document discusses rule-based classification. It describes how rule-based classification models use if-then rules to classify data. It covers extracting rules from decision trees and directly from training data. Key points include using sequential covering algorithms to iteratively learn rules that each cover positive examples of a class, and measuring rule quality based on both coverage and accuracy to determine the best rules.
This document provides a short review of clustering techniques for students. It defines clustering and different types of grouping methods such as hard vs soft clustering. It discusses popular clustering algorithms like hierarchical clustering, k-means clustering, and density-based clustering. It also covers cluster validity, usability, preprocessing techniques, meta methods, and visual clustering. Open problems in clustering mentioned include how to identify outlier objects and accelerate classification.
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The document discusses different clustering techniques used for grouping large amounts of data. It covers partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids that organize data into exclusive groups. It also describes hierarchical methods like agglomerative and divisive clustering that arrange data into nested groups or trees. Additionally, it mentions density-based and grid-based clustering and provides algorithms for different clustering approaches.
This document discusses unsupervised machine learning classification through clustering. It defines clustering as the process of grouping similar items together, with high intra-cluster similarity and low inter-cluster similarity. The document outlines common clustering algorithms like K-means and hierarchical clustering, and describes how K-means works by assigning points to centroids and iteratively updating centroids. It also discusses applications of clustering in domains like marketing, astronomy, genomics and more.
Visual data mining combines traditional data mining methods with information visualization techniques to explore large datasets. There are three levels of integration between visualization and automated mining methods - no/limited integration, loose integration where methods are applied sequentially, and full integration where methods are applied in parallel. Different visualization methods exist for univariate, bivariate and multivariate data based on the type and dimensions of the data. The document describes frameworks and algorithms for visual data mining, including developing new algorithms interactively through a visual interface. It also summarizes a document on using data mining and visualization techniques for selective visualization of large spatial datasets.
The document discusses frequent pattern mining and the Apriori algorithm. It introduces frequent patterns as frequently occurring sets of items in transaction data. The Apriori algorithm is described as a seminal method for mining frequent itemsets via multiple passes over the data, generating candidate itemsets and pruning those that are not frequent. Challenges with Apriori include multiple database scans and large number of candidate sets generated.
This document discusses time-series data and methods for analyzing it. Time-series data consists of sequential values measured over time that can be analyzed to identify patterns, trends, and outliers. Key methods discussed include trend analysis to identify long-term movements, seasonal variations, and irregular components; similarity search to find similar sequences; and dimensionality reduction and transformation techniques to reduce data size before analysis or indexing.
K-means clustering is an algorithm that groups data points into k number of clusters based on their similarity. It works by randomly selecting k data points as initial cluster centroids and then assigning each remaining point to the closest centroid. It then recalculates the centroids and reassigns points in an iterative process until centroids stabilize. While efficient, k-means clustering has weaknesses in that it requires specifying k, can get stuck in local optima, and is not suitable for non-convex shaped clusters or noisy data.
The document describes the SPADE algorithm for sequential pattern mining. SPADE aims to improve efficiency over previous algorithms by reducing the number of database scans and using a more compact vertical id-list database format. It works by decomposing the search space into equivalence classes based on common prefixes and processing each class independently with depth-first search.
The document introduces data preprocessing techniques for data mining. It discusses why data preprocessing is important due to real-world data often being dirty, incomplete, noisy, inconsistent or duplicate. It then describes common data types and quality issues like missing values, noise, outliers and duplicates. The major tasks of data preprocessing are outlined as data cleaning, integration, transformation and reduction. Specific techniques for handling missing values, noise, outliers and duplicates are also summarized.
A brief description of clustering, two relevant clustering algorithms(K-means and Fuzzy C-means), clustering validation, two inner validity indices(Dunn-n-Dunn and Devies Bouldin) .
It is a data mining technique used to place the data elements into their related groups. Clustering is the process of partitioning the data (or objects) into the same class, The data in one class is more similar to each other than to those in other cluster.
Bayesian classification is a statistical classification method that uses Bayes' theorem to calculate the probability of class membership. It provides probabilistic predictions by calculating the probabilities of classes for new data based on training data. The naive Bayesian classifier is a simple Bayesian model that assumes conditional independence between attributes, allowing faster computation. Bayesian belief networks are graphical models that represent dependencies between variables using a directed acyclic graph and conditional probability tables.
This is very simple introduction to Clustering with some real world example. At the end of lecture I use stackOverflow API to test some clustering. I also wants to try facebook but it has some problem with it's API
DBScan stands for Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise.
DBScan Concepts
DBScan Parameters
DBScan Connectivity and Reachability
DBScan Algorithm , Flowchart and Example
Advantages and Disadvantages of DBScan
DBScan Complexity
Outliers related question and its solution.
This document provides an overview of data mining techniques and concepts. It defines data mining as the process of discovering interesting patterns and knowledge from large amounts of data. The key steps involved are data cleaning, integration, selection, transformation, mining, evaluation, and presentation. Common data mining techniques include classification, clustering, association rule mining, and anomaly detection. The document also discusses data sources, major applications of data mining, and challenges.
Chapter - 7 Data Mining Concepts and Techniques 2nd Ed slides Han & Kambererror007
The document describes chapter 7 of the book "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" which covers cluster analysis. The chapter discusses what cluster analysis is, different types of data that can be analyzed, major clustering methods like partitioning, hierarchical, and density-based methods. It also covers measuring cluster quality, requirements for clustering in data mining, and how to calculate similarity and dissimilarity between data objects.
The document discusses sequential pattern mining, which involves finding frequently occurring ordered sequences or subsequences in sequence databases. It covers key concepts like sequential patterns, sequence databases, support count, and subsequences. It also describes several algorithms for sequential pattern mining, including GSP (Generalized Sequential Patterns) which uses a candidate generation and test approach, SPADE which works on a vertical data format, and PrefixSpan which employs a prefix-projected sequential pattern growth approach without candidate generation.
DATA
Data is any raw material or unorganized information.
CLUSTER
Cluster is group of objects that belongs to a same class.
Cluster is a set of tables physically stored together as one table that shares common columns.
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K-means clustering is an algorithm that groups data points into k clusters based on their attributes and distances from initial cluster center points. It works by first randomly selecting k data points as initial centroids, then assigning all other points to the closest centroid and recalculating the centroids. This process repeats until the centroids are stable or a maximum number of iterations is reached. K-means clustering is widely used for machine learning applications like image segmentation and speech recognition due to its efficiency, but it is sensitive to initialization and assumes spherical clusters of similar size and density.
This document summarizes a presentation on cluster analysis given by Tekendra Nath Yogi. It defines cluster analysis and describes several clustering methods and algorithms, including k-means clustering. It also discusses applications of cluster analysis in fields like business intelligence, image recognition, web search, and biology. Requirements for effective clustering algorithms are outlined.
The document provides an overview of different clustering methods including partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids, hierarchical methods like agglomerative and divisive, and density-based methods like DBSCAN and OPTICS. It discusses the basic concepts of clustering, requirements for effective clustering like scalability and ability to handle different data types and shapes. It also summarizes clustering algorithms like BIRCH that aim to improve scalability for large datasets.
This course is all about the data mining that how we get the optimized results. it included with all types and how we use these techniques.This course is all about the data mining that how we get the optimized results. it included with all types and how we use these techniques.This course is all about the data mining that how we get the optimized results. it included with all types and how we use these techniques.This course is all about the data mining that how we get the optimized results. it included with all types and how we use these techniques.This course is all about the data mining that how we get the optimized results. it included with all types and how we use these techniques
The document discusses different clustering techniques used for grouping large amounts of data. It covers partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids that organize data into exclusive groups. It also describes hierarchical methods like agglomerative and divisive clustering that arrange data into nested groups or trees. Additionally, it mentions density-based and grid-based clustering and provides algorithms for different clustering approaches.
This document discusses unsupervised machine learning classification through clustering. It defines clustering as the process of grouping similar items together, with high intra-cluster similarity and low inter-cluster similarity. The document outlines common clustering algorithms like K-means and hierarchical clustering, and describes how K-means works by assigning points to centroids and iteratively updating centroids. It also discusses applications of clustering in domains like marketing, astronomy, genomics and more.
Visual data mining combines traditional data mining methods with information visualization techniques to explore large datasets. There are three levels of integration between visualization and automated mining methods - no/limited integration, loose integration where methods are applied sequentially, and full integration where methods are applied in parallel. Different visualization methods exist for univariate, bivariate and multivariate data based on the type and dimensions of the data. The document describes frameworks and algorithms for visual data mining, including developing new algorithms interactively through a visual interface. It also summarizes a document on using data mining and visualization techniques for selective visualization of large spatial datasets.
The document discusses frequent pattern mining and the Apriori algorithm. It introduces frequent patterns as frequently occurring sets of items in transaction data. The Apriori algorithm is described as a seminal method for mining frequent itemsets via multiple passes over the data, generating candidate itemsets and pruning those that are not frequent. Challenges with Apriori include multiple database scans and large number of candidate sets generated.
This document discusses time-series data and methods for analyzing it. Time-series data consists of sequential values measured over time that can be analyzed to identify patterns, trends, and outliers. Key methods discussed include trend analysis to identify long-term movements, seasonal variations, and irregular components; similarity search to find similar sequences; and dimensionality reduction and transformation techniques to reduce data size before analysis or indexing.
K-means clustering is an algorithm that groups data points into k number of clusters based on their similarity. It works by randomly selecting k data points as initial cluster centroids and then assigning each remaining point to the closest centroid. It then recalculates the centroids and reassigns points in an iterative process until centroids stabilize. While efficient, k-means clustering has weaknesses in that it requires specifying k, can get stuck in local optima, and is not suitable for non-convex shaped clusters or noisy data.
The document describes the SPADE algorithm for sequential pattern mining. SPADE aims to improve efficiency over previous algorithms by reducing the number of database scans and using a more compact vertical id-list database format. It works by decomposing the search space into equivalence classes based on common prefixes and processing each class independently with depth-first search.
The document introduces data preprocessing techniques for data mining. It discusses why data preprocessing is important due to real-world data often being dirty, incomplete, noisy, inconsistent or duplicate. It then describes common data types and quality issues like missing values, noise, outliers and duplicates. The major tasks of data preprocessing are outlined as data cleaning, integration, transformation and reduction. Specific techniques for handling missing values, noise, outliers and duplicates are also summarized.
A brief description of clustering, two relevant clustering algorithms(K-means and Fuzzy C-means), clustering validation, two inner validity indices(Dunn-n-Dunn and Devies Bouldin) .
It is a data mining technique used to place the data elements into their related groups. Clustering is the process of partitioning the data (or objects) into the same class, The data in one class is more similar to each other than to those in other cluster.
Bayesian classification is a statistical classification method that uses Bayes' theorem to calculate the probability of class membership. It provides probabilistic predictions by calculating the probabilities of classes for new data based on training data. The naive Bayesian classifier is a simple Bayesian model that assumes conditional independence between attributes, allowing faster computation. Bayesian belief networks are graphical models that represent dependencies between variables using a directed acyclic graph and conditional probability tables.
This is very simple introduction to Clustering with some real world example. At the end of lecture I use stackOverflow API to test some clustering. I also wants to try facebook but it has some problem with it's API
DBScan stands for Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise.
DBScan Concepts
DBScan Parameters
DBScan Connectivity and Reachability
DBScan Algorithm , Flowchart and Example
Advantages and Disadvantages of DBScan
DBScan Complexity
Outliers related question and its solution.
This document provides an overview of data mining techniques and concepts. It defines data mining as the process of discovering interesting patterns and knowledge from large amounts of data. The key steps involved are data cleaning, integration, selection, transformation, mining, evaluation, and presentation. Common data mining techniques include classification, clustering, association rule mining, and anomaly detection. The document also discusses data sources, major applications of data mining, and challenges.
Chapter - 7 Data Mining Concepts and Techniques 2nd Ed slides Han & Kambererror007
The document describes chapter 7 of the book "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" which covers cluster analysis. The chapter discusses what cluster analysis is, different types of data that can be analyzed, major clustering methods like partitioning, hierarchical, and density-based methods. It also covers measuring cluster quality, requirements for clustering in data mining, and how to calculate similarity and dissimilarity between data objects.
The document discusses sequential pattern mining, which involves finding frequently occurring ordered sequences or subsequences in sequence databases. It covers key concepts like sequential patterns, sequence databases, support count, and subsequences. It also describes several algorithms for sequential pattern mining, including GSP (Generalized Sequential Patterns) which uses a candidate generation and test approach, SPADE which works on a vertical data format, and PrefixSpan which employs a prefix-projected sequential pattern growth approach without candidate generation.
DATA
Data is any raw material or unorganized information.
CLUSTER
Cluster is group of objects that belongs to a same class.
Cluster is a set of tables physically stored together as one table that shares common columns.
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K-means clustering is an algorithm that groups data points into k clusters based on their attributes and distances from initial cluster center points. It works by first randomly selecting k data points as initial centroids, then assigning all other points to the closest centroid and recalculating the centroids. This process repeats until the centroids are stable or a maximum number of iterations is reached. K-means clustering is widely used for machine learning applications like image segmentation and speech recognition due to its efficiency, but it is sensitive to initialization and assumes spherical clusters of similar size and density.
This document summarizes a presentation on cluster analysis given by Tekendra Nath Yogi. It defines cluster analysis and describes several clustering methods and algorithms, including k-means clustering. It also discusses applications of cluster analysis in fields like business intelligence, image recognition, web search, and biology. Requirements for effective clustering algorithms are outlined.
The document provides an overview of different clustering methods including partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids, hierarchical methods like agglomerative and divisive, and density-based methods like DBSCAN and OPTICS. It discusses the basic concepts of clustering, requirements for effective clustering like scalability and ability to handle different data types and shapes. It also summarizes clustering algorithms like BIRCH that aim to improve scalability for large datasets.
UNIT - 4: Data Warehousing and Data MiningNandakumar P
UNIT-IV
Cluster Analysis: Types of Data in Cluster Analysis – A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods – Partitioning Methods – Hierarchical methods – Density, Based Methods – Grid, Based Methods – Model, Based Clustering Methods – Clustering High, Dimensional Data – Constraint, Based Cluster Analysis – Outlier Analysis.
This document provides an overview of descriptive modeling techniques in data mining. It defines descriptive modeling as analyzing past data to gain insights rather than predicting future events. Key techniques discussed include association rule mining to discover relationships between variables, and clustering to group similar objects together. The document outlines different clustering algorithms like k-means, hierarchical, and density-based clustering. It also discusses pros and cons of descriptive modeling, such as the abundance of algorithms but difficulty in evaluating quality.
pratik meshram-Unit 5 (contemporary mkt r sch)Pratik Meshram
This document discusses various data analysis techniques including cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, perceptual mapping, and discriminant analysis. It provides details on cluster analysis methods and processes. Cluster analysis involves grouping similar observations into clusters so that observations within a cluster are more similar to each other than observations in other clusters. The document discusses different clustering algorithms and applications. It also provides an example of using cluster analysis to segment customers of an auto insurance company based on preferences.
This document provides an overview of unsupervised learning techniques. It begins with introductions to unsupervised learning and clustering as a machine learning task. It then describes different types of clustering techniques including partitioning methods like k-means and k-medoids, hierarchical clustering, and density-based methods. Applications of clustering like customer segmentation and anomaly detection are also discussed. Key aspects of clustering algorithms like determining the optimal number of clusters using the elbow method are explained through examples.
A Survey on the Clustering Algorithms in Sales Data MiningEditor IJCATR
This document discusses clustering techniques that can be used for analyzing sales data. It begins by introducing the importance of clustering large sales databases to extract useful knowledge that can help senior management with decision making. It then provides an overview of different clustering algorithms like hierarchical, partitioning, grid-based, and density-based clustering. The document also discusses the goals of clustering sales data, which include predicting customer purchasing behavior and improving knowledge discovery. It outlines the typical stages of sales data clustering as feature selection, validation of results, and interpretation of results. Finally, it reviews several papers that have used clustering and other techniques like association rule mining to analyze retail sales data.
Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning technique that groups unlabeled data points into clusters based on similarities. It partitions data into meaningful subgroups without predefined labels. Common clustering algorithms include k-means, hierarchical, density-based, and grid-based methods. K-means clustering aims to partition data into k clusters where each data point belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean. It is sensitive to outliers but simple and fast.
This document discusses clustering analysis and the k-means clustering algorithm. It defines clustering analysis as the process of grouping similar objects together based on their similarities. The k-means algorithm is described as an unsupervised learning method that partitions unlabeled data into k predefined clusters, where each data point belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean. Applications of clustering analysis mentioned include cancer identification, customer segmentation, and biological classification.
Clustering: Grouping Data for Insights
Clustering is a fundamental method in data analysis and machine learning that focuses on the task of dividing a set of data points into groups or clusters. The primary goal is to ensure that data points within the same cluster are more similar to each other than to those in other clusters. This technique is invaluable for discovering structure and patterns within complex data sets, making it an essential tool in fields ranging from marketing and finance to bioinformatics and social network analysis.
Key Concepts and Algorithms
K-Means Clustering: One of the most popular clustering algorithms, K-Means aims to partition data into K distinct clusters. Each cluster is defined by its centroid, which is the mean of the data points in that cluster. The algorithm iteratively assigns data points to the nearest centroid and recalculates the centroids until convergence. It is efficient and simple but requires specifying the number of clusters in advance.
Hierarchical Clustering: This method builds a tree-like structure (dendrogram) to represent data points' nested groupings. It can be agglomerative (bottom-up) or divisive (top-down). Agglomerative clustering starts with each data point as a single cluster and merges the closest pairs iteratively, while divisive clustering starts with all data points in one cluster and splits them iteratively. It doesn’t require specifying the number of clusters beforehand but can be computationally intensive for large datasets.
DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise): DBSCAN identifies clusters based on the density of data points. It groups together points that are closely packed and marks points that lie alone in low-density regions as outliers. This algorithm can discover clusters of arbitrary shapes and is robust to noise but requires careful tuning of its parameters, such as the neighborhood radius and the minimum number of points.
Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM): GMM assumes that the data points are generated from a mixture of several Gaussian distributions with unknown parameters. It uses the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm to estimate the parameters iteratively. GMM is more flexible than K-Means, as it allows clusters to take on various shapes, but it can be more complex and computationally expensive.
Applications of Clustering
Market Segmentation: Businesses use clustering to segment customers into distinct groups based on purchasing behavior, demographics, or other attributes. This helps in tailoring marketing strategies, improving customer satisfaction, and optimizing product offerings.
Image Segmentation: In image analysis, clustering is used to partition an image into meaningful regions, facilitating object recognition, medical imaging, and automated driving applications.
Social Network Analysis: Clustering can identify communities within social networks, helping to understand social structures, spread of information, and inf
Assessment of Cluster Tree Analysis based on Data Linkagesjournal ijrtem
Abstract: Details linkage is a procedure which almost adjoins two or more places of data (surveyed or proprietary) from different companies to generate a value chest of information which can be used for further analysis. This allows for the real application of the details. One-to-Many data linkage affiliates an enterprise from the first data set with a number of related companies from the other data places. Before performs concentrate on accomplishing one-to-one data linkages. So formerly a two level clustering shrub known as One-Class Clustering Tree (OCCT) with designed in Jaccard Likeness evaluate was suggested in which each flyer contains team instead of only one categorized sequence. OCCT's strategy to use Jaccard's similarity co-efficient increases time complexness significantly. So we recommend to substitute jaccard's similarity coefficient with Jaro wrinket similarity evaluate to acquire the team similarity related because it requires purchase into consideration using positional indices to calculate relevance compared with Jaccard's. An assessment of our suggested idea suffices as approval of an enhanced one-to-many data linkage system.
Index Terms: Maximum-Weighted Bipartite Matching, Ant Colony Optimization, Graph Partitioning Technique
Cluster analysis is a technique used in data analysis and data mining to group similar data points or objects into clusters. The goal is to partition data into meaningful subgroups where data points within each cluster are more similar to each other than those in other clusters. There are various applications of cluster analysis across different fields like marketing, biology, image processing, and social sciences. Common cluster analysis methods include K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, DBSCAN, and Gaussian mixture models. The choice of method depends on factors like the nature of data, number of desired clusters, and analysis objectives.
How Partitioning Clustering Technique For Implementing...Nicolle Dammann
This document discusses and compares different clustering and conjoint analysis techniques. It provides definitions and examples of cluster analysis and conjoint analysis, highlighting their advantages and limitations. Cluster analysis is used to group similar customers and products for market segmentation. Conjoint analysis determines how people value different attributes of a product or service. The document also compares these two techniques and discusses their various applications in business and marketing research.
A Comparative Study Of Various Clustering Algorithms In Data MiningNatasha Grant
This document provides an overview and comparison of various clustering algorithms used in data mining. It discusses the key types of clustering algorithms: partition-based (such as k-means and k-medoids), hierarchical-based, density-based, and grid-based. For partition-based algorithms, it describes k-means and k-medoids in more detail. It also discusses hierarchical clustering approaches like agglomerative nesting. The document aims to provide insights into different clustering techniques for segmenting and grouping data in an unsupervised manner.
This document compares hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering algorithms. It summarizes four clustering algorithms: K-Means, K-Medoids, Farthest First Clustering (hierarchical algorithms), and DBSCAN (non-hierarchical algorithm). It describes the methodology of each algorithm and provides pseudocode. It also describes the datasets used to evaluate the performance of the algorithms and the evaluation metrics. The goal is to compare the performance of the clustering methods on different datasets.
IRJET- Optimal Number of Cluster Identification using Robust K-Means for ...IRJET Journal
This document discusses using a modified k-means algorithm to identify the optimal number of clusters in categorical sequence data. The traditional k-means algorithm requires the number of clusters to be predefined, which can impact performance. The proposed Robust K-means for Sequences algorithm aims to predict the optimal number of clusters by removing noise clusters. It evaluates cluster validation to assess clustering quality for categorical sequence data, where defining similarity is challenging. The algorithm combines a partition-based clustering method and a cluster validity index within a model selection process to determine the best number of clusters for categorical sequence sets.
Introduction to Data Mining and Data WarehousingKamal Acharya
This document provides details about a course on data mining and data warehousing. The course objectives are to understand the foundational principles and techniques of data mining and data warehousing. The course description covers topics like data preprocessing, classification, association analysis, cluster analysis, and data warehouses. The course is divided into 10 units that cover concepts and algorithms for data mining techniques. Practical exercises are included to apply techniques to real-world data problems.
This document discusses using data mining techniques to visualize association rules in customer relationship management (CRM) systems. It begins with an introduction to data mining and association rule mining. It then discusses challenges with existing visualization methods for large sets of association rules. The paper proposes a grouped matrix-based visualization approach that organizes rules into nested hierarchical groups to aid exploration of large rule sets. This approach aggregates rows and columns of a rule matrix to represent groups. It also uses coloring and positioning to guide the user to interesting groups and rules. The paper concludes the proposed approach addresses limitations of existing methods for visualizing large association rule sets.
Survey on Text Mining Based on Social Media Comments as Big Data Analysis Usi...IJMREMJournal
The tax gives an important role for the contributions of the economy and development of a country. The
improvements to the taxation service system continuously done in order to increase the State Budget. The
performance of the country will be upgrade from the public opinion about the tax. The opinion of the public will
be considered as a data for the growth of the nation. Text mining can be used to know public opinion about the
tax system. The rapid growth of data in social media initiates the researchers to use the data source as big data
analysis. The dataset used is derived from Face book, Twitter public sentiment in part of service, website
system, and news can be used as consideration as a input of tax comments. In this paper, text mining is done
through the phases of text processing, feature selection and classification with genetic algorithm (GA). Efficient
framework is used for pre-processing the data. Testing is used to measure the performance level of GA by using
the evaluation metrics such as purity, entropy and F-measure.
This document discusses various computer arithmetic operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division for signed magnitude and two's complement data representations. It describes the Booth multiplication algorithm, array multipliers for performing multiplication using combinational circuits, and the division algorithm. It also covers detecting divide overflow conditions.
The document provides an introduction to computer security including:
- The basic components of security such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Common security threats like snooping, modification, and denial of service attacks.
- Issues with security including operational challenges and human factors.
- An overview of security policies, access control models, and security models like Bell-LaPadula and Biba.
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This is a great way to be more productive but a few things to
Keep in mind:
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Cluster Analysis(Clustering/automatic classification/ data segmentation)
• Clustering is the process of grouping a set of data objects into multiple
groups or clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity,
but are very dissimilar to objects in other clusters.
• Dissimilarities and similarities are assessed based on the attribute
values describing the objects and often involve distance measures.
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• Clustering is known as unsupervised leaning because the class
label information is not present. For this reason, clustering is a
form of learning by observation, rather than learning by
examples.
• Different clustering methods may generate different clusterings
on the same data set.
• The partitioning is not performed by humans, but by the
clustering algorithm.
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• Hence, Clustering is used:
– As a stand-alone tool to get insight into data distribution
• Visualization of clusters may unveil important information
– As a preprocessing step for other algorithms
• Efficient indexing or compression often relies on clustering
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Some Applications of Clustering
• Cluster analysis has been widely used in numerous applications
such as:
– In business intelligence
– In image recognization
– In web search
– In Outlier detection
– In biology
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• In Business intelligence:
– clustering can help marketers discover distinct groups in their
customer bases and characterize customer groups based on
purchasing patterns so that, for example, advertising can be
appropriately targeted..
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• In image recognization:
– In image recognition, clustering can be used to discover clusters or
“subclasses” in handwritten character recognition systems.
– For example: We can use clustering to determine subclasses for “1,” each
of which represents a variation on the way in which 1 can be written.
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• In web search
– document grouping: Clustering can be used to organize the
search results into groups and present the results in a concise
and easily accessible way.
– cluster Weblog data to discover groups of similar access
patterns.
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• In Outlier detection
– Clustering can also be used for outlier detection, where
outliers (values that are “far away” from any cluster) may be
more interesting than common cases.
– Applications of outlier detection include the detection of
credit card fraud and the monitoring of criminal activities in
electronic commerce.
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• In biology:
– In biology, it can be used to derive plant and animal
taxonomies, categorize genes with similar functionality, and
gain insight into structures inherent in populations.
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What Is Good Clustering?
• A good clustering method will produce high quality clusters with
– high intra-class similarity
– low inter-class similarity
• The quality of a clustering result depends on both the similarity
measure used by the method and its implementation.
• The quality of a clustering method is also measured by its ability
to discover some or all of the hidden patterns.
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Requirements for clustering as a data mining tool
• The following are typical requirements of clustering in data
mining.
– Scalability
– Ability to deal with different types of attributes
– Discovery of clusters with arbitrary shape
– Requirements for domain knowledge to determine input parameters
– Ability to deal with noisy data
– Incremental clustering and insensitivity to input order
– Capability of clustering high-dimensionality data
– Constraint-based clustering
– Interpretability and usability
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• Scalability:
– Many clustering algorithms work well on small data sets
containing fewer than several hundred data objects; however,
a large database may contain millions of objects.
– Clustering on a sample of a given large data set may lead to
biased results.
– Highly scalable clustering algorithms are needed.
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• Ability to deal with different types of attributes:
– Many algorithms are designed to cluster interval-based
(numerical) data.
– However, applications may require clustering other types of
data, such as binary, categorical (nominal), and ordinal data,
or mixtures of these data types.
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• Discovery of clusters with arbitrary shape:
– Many clustering algorithms determine clusters based on
Euclidean distance measures.
– Algorithms based on such distance measures tend to find
spherical clusters with similar size and density.
– However, a cluster could be of any shape.
– It is important to develop algorithms that can detect clusters
of arbitrary shape.
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• Minimal requirements for domain knowledge to
determine input parameters:
– Many clustering algorithms require users to input certain
parameters in cluster analysis (such as the number of desired
clusters).
– The clustering results can be quite sensitive to input parameters.
– Parameters are often difficult to determine, especially for data sets
containing high-dimensional objects.
– This not only burdens users, but it also makes the quality of
clustering difficult to control.
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• Ability to deal with noisy data:
– Most real-world databases contain outliers or missing,
unknown, or erroneous data.
– Some clustering algorithms are sensitive to such data and may
lead to clusters of poor quality.
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• Incremental clustering and insensitivity to the order of input
records:
– Some clustering algorithms cannot incorporate newly inserted
data (i.e., database updates) into existing clustering structures
and, instead, must determine a new clustering from scratch.
– Some clustering algorithms are sensitive to the order of input
data. That is, given a set of data objects, such an algorithm
may return dramatically different clusterings depending on
the order of presentation of the input objects.
– It is important to develop incremental clustering algorithms
and algorithms that are insensitive to the order of input.
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• High dimensionality:
– A database or a data warehouse can contain several
dimensions or attributes.
– Many clustering algorithms are good at handling low-
dimensional data, involving only two to three dimensions.
– Human eyes are good at judging the quality of clustering for
up to three dimensions.
– Finding clusters of data objects in high dimensional space is
challenging, especially considering that such data can be
sparse and highly skewed.
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• Constraint-based clustering:
– Real-world applications may need to perform clustering under
various kinds of constraints.
– Suppose that your job is to choose the locations for a given
number of new automatic banking machines (ATMs) in a city.
– To decide upon this, you may cluster households while
considering constraints such as the city’s rivers and highway
networks, and the type and number of customers per cluster.
– A challenging task is to find groups of data with good
clustering behavior that satisfy specified constraints.
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• Interpretability and usability:
– Users expect clustering results to be interpretable,
comprehensible, and usable.
– That is, clustering may need to be tied to specific semantic
interpretations and applications.
– It is important to study how an application goal may
influence the selection of clustering features and methods.
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Aspects of clustering
• A clustering algorithm/methods
– Partitional clustering
– Hierarchical clustering
– …
• A distance (similarity, or dissimilarity) function
• Clustering quality
– Inter-clusters distance maximized
– Intra-clusters distance minimized
• The quality of a clustering result depends on the
algorithm, the distance function, and the application.
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Major Clustering Methods:
• In general, the major fundamental clustering methods can be
classified into the following categories:
– Partitioning Methods
– Hierarchical Methods
– Density-Based Methods
– Grid-Based Methods
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• Partitioning Methods:
– A partitioning method constructs k partitions of the data, where each
partition represents a cluster and k <= n. That is, it classifies the data
into k groups, which together satisfy the following requirements:
• Each group must contain at least one object, and
• Each object must belong to exactly one group.
– A partitioning method creates an initial partitioning. It then uses an
iterative relocation technique that attempts to improve the
partitioning by moving objects from one group to another.
– The general criterion of a good partitioning is that objects in the
same cluster are close or related to each other, whereas objects of
different clusters are far apart or very different.
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• Hierarchical Methods:
– A hierarchical method creates a hierarchical decomposition of
the given set of data objects.
– A hierarchical method can be classified as being either
agglomerative or divisive, based on how the hierarchical
decomposition is formed.
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• The agglomerative approach, also called the bottom-up approach, starts
with each object forming a separate group. It successively merges the
objects or groups that are close to one another, until all of the groups
are merged into one or until a termination condition holds.
• The divisive approach, also called the top-down approach, starts with
all of the objects in the same cluster. In each successive iteration, a
cluster is split up into smaller clusters, until eventually each object is in
one cluster, or until a termination condition holds.
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• Density-based methods:
– General idea is to continue growing the given cluster as long
as the density in the neighborhood exceeds some threshold;
that is, for each data point within a given cluster, the
neighborhood of a given radius has to contain at least a
minimum number of points.
– Such a method can be used to filter out noise (outliers)and
discover clusters of arbitrary shape.
– E.g., DBSCAN
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• Grid-based methods:
– Grid-based methods quantize the object space into a finite
number of cells that form a grid structure.
– All the clustering operations are performed on the grid
structure.
– E.g., STING
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Partitioning Methods
• Given a data set, D, of n objects, and k, the number of clusters to
form, a partitioning algorithm organizes the objects into k
partitions (k<=n), where each partition represents a cluster.
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k-Means: A Centroid-Based Technique
• A centroid-based partitioning technique uses the centroid of a cluster,
Ci , to represent that cluster.
• The centroid of a cluster is its center point such as the mean or medoid
of the objects (or points) assigned to the cluster.
• The difference between an object and ci, the representative of
the cluster, is measured by dist(p, ci),
• where dist(i, j) is the Euclidean distance between two points
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• The k-means algorithm defines the centroid of a cluster as the
mean value of the points within the cluster. It proceeds as
follows:
– First, it randomly selects k of the objects in D, each of which initially
represents a cluster mean or center.
– For each of the remaining objects, an object is assigned to the cluster to
which it is the most similar, based on the Euclidean distance between the
object and the cluster mean.
– The k-means algorithm then iteratively improves the within-cluster
variation. For each cluster, it computes the new mean using the objects
assigned to the cluster in the previous iteration. All the objects are then
reassigned using the updated means as the new cluster centers.
– The iterations continue until the assignment is stable, that is, the clusters
formed in the current round are the same as those formed in the previous
round.
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• Algorithm:
– The k-means algorithm for partitioning, where each cluster’s center is
represented by the mean value of the objects in the cluster.
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The K-Means Clustering Method
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• Example1: Clusters the following instances of given data (2-
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• Example 2: Clusters the following instances of given data (2-
Dimensional form) with the help of K means algorithm (Take K
= 2)
Instance X Y
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Hierarchical clustering
• A hierarchical clustering method works by grouping data objects
into a hierarchy or “tree” of clusters.
• Representing data objects in the form of a hierarchy is useful for
data summarization and visualization.
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• Depending on whether the hierarchical decomposition is formed
in a bottom-up (merging) or top-down (splitting) fashion a
hierarchical clustering method can be classified into two
categories:
– Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering and
– Divisive Hierarchical Clustering
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• Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering:
– uses a bottom-up strategy.
– starts by letting each object form its own cluster and
iteratively merges clusters into larger and larger clusters, until
all the objects are in a single cluster or certain termination
conditions(desired number of clusters) are satisfied.
– For the merging step, it finds the two clusters that are closest
to each other (according to some similarity measure), and
combines the two to form one cluster.
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• Example: a data set of five objects, {a, b, c, d, e}. Initially, AGNES
(AGglomerative NESting), the agglomerative method, places each object into
a cluster of its own. The clusters are then merged step-by-step according to
some criterion (e.g., minimum Euclidean distance).
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• Divisive hierarchical clustering :
– A divisive hierarchical clustering method employs a top-down
strategy.
– It starts by placing all objects in one cluster, which is the
hierarchy’s root.
– It then divides the root cluster into several smaller sub-clusters, and
recursively partitions those clusters into smaller ones.
– The partitioning process continues until each cluster at the lowest
level either containing only one object, or the objects within a
cluster are sufficiently similar to each other.
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• Example: DIANA (DIvisive ANAlysis), a divisive hierarchical clustering
method:
– a data set of five objects, {a, b, c, d, e}. All the objects are used to form
one initial cluster. The cluster is split according to some principle such as
the maximum Euclidean distance between the closest neighboring objects
in the cluster. The cluster-splitting process repeats until, eventually, each
new cluster contains only a single object.
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• agglomerative versus divisive hierarchical clustering:
– Organize objects into a hierarchy using a bottom-up or top-
down strategy, respectively.
– Agglomerative methods start with individual objects as
clusters, which are iteratively merged to form larger clusters.
– Conversely, divisive methods initially let all the given objects
form one cluster, which they iteratively split into smaller
clusters.
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• Hierarchical clustering methods can encounter difficulties regarding
the selection of merge or split points.
– Such a decision is critical, because once a group of objects is
merged or split, the process at the next step will operate on the
newly generated clusters. It will neither undo what was done
previously, nor perform object swapping between clusters.
– Thus, merge or split decisions, if not well chosen, may lead to low-
quality clusters.
• Moreover, the methods do not scale well because each decision of
merge or split needs to examine and evaluate many objects or clusters.
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Density Based Methods
• Partitioning methods and hierarchical clustering are suitable for finding
spherical-shaped clusters.
• Moreover, they are also severely affected by the presence of noise and
outliers in the data.
• Unfortunately, real life data contain:
– Clusters of arbitrary shape such as oval, linear, s-shaped, etc.
– Many noise
• Solution : Density based methods
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Contd..
• Basic Idea behind Density based methods:
– Model clusters as dense regions in the data space, separated by sparse
regions.
• Major features:
– Discover clusters of arbitrary shape(e.g., oval, s-shaped, etc)
– Handle noise
– Need density parameters as termination condition
• E.g., : DBSCAN(Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise)
50. Density-Based Clustering: Background
• Neighborhood of point p=all points within distance e from p:
– NEps(p)={q | dist(p,q) <= e }
• Two parameters:
– e : Maximum radius of the neighbourhood
– MinPts: Minimum number of points in an e -neighbourhood of that point
• If the number of points in the e -neighborhood of p is at least
MinPts, then p is called a core object.
p
q
MinPts = 5
e = 1 cm
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51. Contd..
• Directly density-reachable: A point p is directly density-
reachable from a point q wrt. e, MinPts if
– 1) p belongs to NEps(q)
– 2) core point condition: |NEps (q)| >= MinPts
p
q
MinPts = 5
e = 1 cm
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52. Contd..
• Density-reachable:
– A point p is density-reachable from a point q wrt. Eps, MinPts if there is a
chain of points p1, …, pn, q = p1,….. pn = p such that pi+1 is directly
density-reachable from pi
p
q
p1
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53. Contd..
• Density-connected:
– A point p is density-connected to a point q wrt. Eps, MinPts if there is a
point o such that both, p and q are density-reachable from o wrt. Eps and
MinPts.
p q
o
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Contd..• Density = number of points within a specified radius (Eps).
• A point is a core point if it has at least a specified number of
points (MinPts) within Eps.
• These are points that are at the interior of a cluster
• Counts the point itself
• A border point is not a core point, but is in the neighborhood of a
core point
• A noise point is any point that is not a core point or a border
point
e.g.,: Minpts=7
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DBSCAN(Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise)
• To find the next cluster, DBSCAN randomly selects an unvisited object
from the remaining ones. The clustering process continues until all
objects are visited.
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Contd..
• Example:
– If Epsilon is 2 and minpoint is 2, what are the clusters that DBScan would
discover with the following 8 examples: A1=(2,10), A2=(2,5), A3=(8,4),
A4=(5,8), A5=(7,5), A6=(6,4), A7=(1,2), A8=(4,9).
• Solution :
– d(a,b) denotes the Eucledian distance between a and b. It is obtained
directly from the distance matrix calculated as follows:
– d(a,b)=sqrt((xb-xa)2+(yb-ya)2))
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Contd..
• N2(A1)={};
• N2(A2)={};
• N2(A3)={A5, A6};
• N2(A4)={A8};
• N2(A5)={A3, A6};
• N2(A6)={A3, A5};
• N2(A7)={};
• N2(A8)={A4};
• So A1, A2, and A7 are outliers, while we have two clusters C1={A4,
A8} and C2={A3, A5, A6}
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Advantages and Disadvantages of DBSCAN algorithm:
• Advantages:
– DBSCAN does not require one to specify the number of clusters in the
data priori, as opposed to k-means.
– DBSCAN can find arbitrarily shaped clusters
– DBSCAN is robust to outliers.
– DBSCAN is mostly insensitive to the ordering of the points in the
database.
– The parameters minPts and ε can be set by a domain expert, if the data is
well understood.
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Contd..
• Disadvantages:
– DBSCAN is not entirely deterministic: border points that are reachable
from more than one cluster can be part of either cluster, depending on the
order the data is processed. Fortunately, this situation does not arise often,
and has little impact on the clustering result: both on core points and noise
points, DBSCAN is deterministic
– DBSCAN cannot cluster data sets well with large differences in densities,
since the minPts-ε combination cannot then be chosen appropriately for all
clusters.
– If the data and scale are not well understood, choosing a meaningful
distance threshold ε can be difficult.
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Homework
• Explain the aims of cluster analysis.
• What is clustering? How is it different than supervised classification?
In what situation clustering can be useful?
• List and explain desired features of cluster analysis.
• Explain the different types of cluster analysis methods and discuss their
features.
• Describe the k-means algorithm and write its strengths and
weaknesses.
• Describe the features of Hierarchical clustering methods? In what
situations are these methods useful?