October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Compared to a supervised classifier, the goal of clustering is to identify intrinsic groups in a set of unlabeled data. It could be applied in identifying representative examples of homogeneous groups, finding useful and suitable groupings, or finding unusual examples, such as outliers.
We'll demonstrate how to implement clustering by analyzing the Bank dataset. The dataset consist of 11 attributes, describing 600 instances with age, sex, region, income, marriage status, children, car ownership status, saving activity, current activity, mortgage status, and PEP. In our analysis, we will try to identify the common groups of clients by applying the Expectation Maximization (EM) clustering.
EM works as follows: given a set of clusters, ...