{"id":7641,"date":"2018-10-14T14:39:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/?post_type=dt_courses&#038;p=7641"},"modified":"2018-10-20T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T12:36:34","slug":"data-clustering-basics","status":"publish","type":"dt_courses","link":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/courses\/data-clustering-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Clustering Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Data clustering<\/strong> consists of data mining methods for identifying groups of similar objects in a multivariate data sets collected from fields such as marketing, bio-medical and geo-spatial.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rdoc\">\n<p>Similarity between observations (or individuals) is defined using some inter-observation distance measures including Euclidean and correlation-based distance measures.<\/p>\n<p>There are different types of data clustering techniques, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Partitioning clustering<\/em> approaches, which subdivide the data into a set of k groups. 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