Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 18513

Cluster analysis or clustering is the task of grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar (in some sense or another) to each other than to those in other groups (clusters). It is a main task of exploratory data mining, and a common technique for statistical data analysis, used in many fields, including machine learning, pattern recognition, image analysis, information retrieval etc.

5 votes

Why does OPTICS use the core-distance as a minimum for the reachability distance?

Robust Single Linkage aims to improve single linkage clustering by making it more robust to noise. … Again we are using core-distance to discount noise, and make the clustering more noise robust. …
Leland McInnes's user avatar
1 vote

Alternative methods for improved clustering separation?

Clustering cannot inherently extract labelled classes. If you have labels then you should use those with a supervised algorithm. … Clustering corresponds to the something about the distributional properties of your data set. …
Leland McInnes's user avatar
2 votes

How to run hdbscan clustering faster?

hdbscan greatly prefers lower dimensional data than the output of sentence-BERT. Ultimately the hdbscan library wants to use KDTrees of BallTrees for efficient nearest neighbor querying, and these wor …
Leland McInnes's user avatar
0 votes
Accepted

HDBSCAN Outlier Detection and labeling

If, on the other hand, you are more interested in generally outlying points then merely selecting the noise points from the clustering will pick out points in sparser regions of the space. …
Leland McInnes's user avatar
2 votes

Do Clustering algorithms need feature scaling in the pre-processing stage?

Feature scaling will certainly effect clustering results. … Exactly what scaling to use is an open question however, since clustering is really an exploratory procedure rather than something with a ground truth you can check against. …
Leland McInnes's user avatar
4 votes

Can you l2 normalize word2vec vectors for density clustering?

With that in mind I have done quite well clustering similar dimension word vectors trained with word2vec using HDBSCAN using exactly such an l2-normalizing approach as you suggest here. …
Leland McInnes's user avatar