Lesson 4 of 4 · 60 min

Clustering and Careful Interpretation of Mining Results

Examine clustering as a major unsupervised task, including similarity matrices, algorithms such as K-means and DBSCAN, computational considerations like spatial access methods, and cautions about finding apparent patterns in random data and making many statistical tests without inflating errors.

Lesson explanation

Clustering is an unsupervised task that groups objects by similarity without preassigned labels. Similarity or distance matrices support the comparison of objects.Methods and computationK-means assigns objects to a chosen number of centroids and updates the ce...

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