Classical Machine Learning

Recalculate the group centres

A journey through k-means clustering with Botie.

Classical Machine Learning · A journey with Botie

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Could a Few Representative Points Summarise the Collection?

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Imagine a large collection of measurements with no category labels. We would like to describe it using a small number of representative cases. The problem is circular: sensible representatives depend on the groups, but sensible groups depend on where the representatives are.

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