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What about data that generally follows something more like a power law distribution? How would you cluster that?
by hnhg 10y ago
What about data that generally follows something more like a power law distribution? How would you cluster that?
- a_bonobo 10y agoscikit-learn's materials (amazing in general) has a nice overview of their clustering methods and how they perform with some test data sets: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html How would you even cluster a power law distribution? There's nothing that distinguishes in two or more groups?
- hnhg 10y agoA lot of online engagement data looks like a power law distribution on large platforms. The mean (obviously) has huge variance. Say you have multiple metrics per user like this. You can still apply k-means but the huge variance makes it rather ineffective. That's what I've found, anyway.
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