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8. Hierarchical Clustering and Dendrogram

Hong Zhou1  
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, USA
 

You may wonder why I do not explain hierarchical clustering right after k-means clustering. Well, there are some reasons. The first one is that Excel is not as suitable for hierarchical clustering or dendrogram as it is for k-means clustering. I would like to introduce a few more other popular data mining methods before diving into this challenging topic. The second reason is that I consider it suitable to explain hierarchical ...

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