Discover the basic concepts of cluster analysis, and then study a set of typical clustering methodologies, algorithms, and applications. This includes partitioning methods such as k-means, hierarchical methods such as BIRCH, and density-based methods such as DBSCAN/OPTICS. Moreover, learn methods for clustering validation and evaluation of clustering quality. Finally, see examples of cluster analysis in applications.
Cluster Analysis in Data Mining
Cluster Analysis in Data Mining
This course is part of Data Mining Specialization
Instructor: Jiawei Han
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Very detailed introduction of Clustering techniques.
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The course is good. learned alot but videos are boring and hard to understand due to more and more text on slides
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A tough course regarding programming assignment and few quiz.
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