M08.1 CONNECT THE MECHANISM
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Six shops, one bread van, and no labels. Watch k-means split the shops into two rounds in a couple of moves, then see how a change of units can reshuffle every group.
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Lesson overview
Six shops, one bread van, and no labels. Watch k-means split the shops into two rounds in a couple of moves, then see how a change of units can reshuffle every group.
What you’ll explore
- Clustering groups examples under a similarity criterion; k-means, hierarchical, and density methods make different assumptions about shape, scale, and outliers.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning — authors’ materialsscikit-learn — k-means clusteringLeast Squares Quantization in PCM (Lloyd, 1982; written 1957)A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters (Ester et al., 1996)Suggest a correction
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