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I have a dataset of 17 features and class label for each datapoint. The description of dataset is as follows:

  • 2 features contain values 0, 1, 2, 3
  • 15 features contain values 0, 1, 2
  • class label containing value 0 or 1

I am given a set of clustering algorithms namely KNN, DBSCAN, Agglomerative clustering, Self Organizing Maps(SOM) and asked to implement each of these algorithm for the above dataset. I implemented them and plotted the obtained clusters with respective any of the two features on a scatter plot. Then I realized that there is no use doing clustering because either all of the points are considered a single cluster or each datapoint is considered a separate cluster.

I also tried one-hot encoding and then perform clustering, still the same result

Is there any use applying clustering algorithms on such data or am I doing something wrong in the implementation part here

Any help is appreciated

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  • $\begingroup$ first thing to check: take a well-known dataset (e.g. Iris) and apply your algorithm implementations on. Do you get good result? $\endgroup$
    – lpounng
    Commented Apr 17, 2023 at 1:20
  • $\begingroup$ @Ipounng Yes, I applied all the algorithms for Iris dataset and results were good, maybe because it was a continuous dataset. I am trying to understand the results obtained for the discrete value dataset. $\endgroup$
    – foobar
    Commented Apr 17, 2023 at 9:26

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