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The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition
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The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition

by Anthony So, Thomas Joseph, Robert Thas John, Andrew Worsley, Dr. Samuel Asare
August 2020
Beginner to intermediate
824 pages
15h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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5. Performing Your First Cluster Analysis

Overview

This chapter will introduce you to unsupervised learning tasks, where algorithms have to automatically learn patterns from data by themselves as no target variables are defined beforehand. We will focus specifically on the k-means algorithm, and see how to standardize and process data for use in cluster analysis.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to load and visualize data and clusters with scatter plots; prepare data for cluster analysis; perform centroid clustering with k-means; interpret clustering results and determine the optimal number of clusters for a given dataset.

Introduction

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