Module: Cluster Analysis

How do we find natural groupings in the data?

Learning Outcomes

Understand how to perform cluster analysis

You understand

what problems are addressed by cluster analysis
how to analyze data using clustering techniques
what are the limitations of clustering techniques
how the k-means technique works
how the agglomerative hierarchical clustering technique works
how density-based clustering works
how to apply clustering to real world scenarios

Readings

Representative-based Clustering

Slides

Hierarchical Clustering

Slides

Density-based Clustering

Slides

Finding the Number of Clusters

wikipedia

Experiential Learning

Ex4. Analyzing Clusters

Finding clusters in data

Python Hands-on

Ex7. DBSCAN & DENCLUE

Finding density-based clusters

In-class Exercise

HW6

Cluster Analysis

WI