Clustering

Human beings like categorizing things, and categories are so fundamental to the way we process information that the world would be largely incomprehensible without them. So it would make sense for our business analytics toolsets to support categories. In fact we employ elementary forms of categorizing almost every time we…

Data mining clustering methods are usually used for exploratory purposes and to gain insights into data. The most commonly used methods include k-Means, agglomerative hierarchical clustering and increasingly self organizing maps. The tools listed below support a wide variety of methods, some of which are particular to a given toolset. Toolkits…