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Hands-On Unsupervised Learning with Python
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Hands-On Unsupervised Learning with Python

by Giuseppe Bonaccorso
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
386 pages
9h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Agglomerative clustering on the Water Treatment Plant dataset

Let's now consider a more detailed problem on a larger dataset (the instructions to download it are provided in the Technical requirements section at the beginning of the chapter) containing 527 samples with 38 chemical and physical variables describing the status of water treatment plants. As the same authors (Bejar, Cortes, and Poch) stated, the domain is poorly-structured and careful analysis is needed. At the same time, our goal is to find the optimal clustering with an agnostic approach; in other words, we won't consider the semantic labeling process (which needs a domain expert) but only the geometrical structure of the dataset and the relations discovered by the agglomerative ...

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