Grouping news articles
The aim of this chapter is to discover trends in news articles by clustering, or grouping, them together. To do that, we will use the k-means algorithm, a classic machine-learning algorithm originally developed in 1957.
Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique and we use clustering algorithms for exploring data. Our dataset contains approximately 500 stories, and it would be quite arduous to examine each of those stories individually. Even if we used summary statistics, that is still a lot of data. Using clustering allows us to group similar stories together, and we can explore the themes in each cluster independently.
We use clustering techniques when we don't have a clear set of target classes for our data. In that ...
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