Swarm Intelligence in Data Mining : Studies in Computational Intelligence
This book (the title of this post is the title of the book) by Ajith Abraham, Crina Grosan, Vitorino Ramos (eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006, is an interesting compilation of chapters on...
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When I wrote down the title of this blog post, I first wondered if is worth while writing on. So I performed a quick google search on “the difference between segmentation and clustering” to get an...
View ArticleClustering with decision trees
Image via Wikipedia There are basically supervised and unsupervised data mining algorithms. Supervised : the training data set contains categories for which the outcome is indicated. The algorithms...
View ArticleDistances : the biggest challenge in clustering
Clustering seems easy : you throw your data into a clustering algorithm (like the popular k-means clustering) and see what comes out of it. FORGET IT ! What is clustering ? Here is one definition...
View ArticleThe visual difference between segmentation and clustering
There is a very simple way to tell the difference between segmentation and clustering. As in most data analysis, a picture tells more than a 1,000 words. So I asked google pictures. For clustering,...
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