Lecture 23 – Clustering

Presented by Anthony D. Joseph

Content by Josh Hug

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23.1
Introduction to clustering. Examples of clustering in practice.
23.1
23.2
The K-Means clustering algorithm. Example of K-Means clustering.
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Loss functions for K-Means. Inertia and distortion. Optimizing inertia.
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Agglomerative clustering as an alternative to K-Means. Example of agglomerative clustering. Dendrograms and other clustering algorithms.
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Picking the number of clusters. The elbow method and silhouette scores. Summary of clustering and machine learning.
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