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I find this HN story title misleading (or clickbait-y): "Cluster analysis" is just a tool; it doesn’t show anything by itself. You can do bad and good cluster a
by hk__2 9y ago
I find this HN story title misleading (or clickbait-y): "Cluster analysis" is just a tool; it doesn’t show anything by itself. You can do bad and good cluster analysis, and you can probably "show" anything you want from it.
Excerpt from the blog post that explains the methodology:
> … we could consider performing cluster analysis on the data, essentially finding a way of grouping the episodes so that those with similar ratings are placed in groups together. A standard clustering approach would just group good episodes and bad episodes. However, I want to alter this slightly in that I only want a group to be made up of a single contiguous group of episodes; basically, if the episodes of season 4 are in the same group as the episodes of season 6, then the episodes of season 5 must also be in that group.
- miiiiiike 9y agoThe title is from BoingBoing. I think it’s fine, but I also have no problem with a mod changing it. https://boingboing.net/2017/10/28/cluster-analysis-shows-that-th.html https://boingboing.net/2017/10/28/cluster-analysis-shows-tha...
- sctb 9y agoOK, we've changed it to the original from “Cluster analysis shows that the golden age of the Simpsons ended in Season 10”.
- SirFatty 9y agoI agree with what you are saying, but the conclusion is still accurate.
- nerdponx 9y agoI find this HN story title misleading (or clickbait-y): <popular programming language> is just a tool; it doesn’t implement anything by itself. You can write bad and good programs in <popular programming language>, and you can probably implement anything you want from it. How silly does that sound? Part of the explicit appeal of these kinda of articles is a toy demonstration of the tool or technique mentioned in the title.
- hk__2 9y agoIt sounds silly if you remove the context, i.e. the title I was refering to. An analogy with a programming language would be “Python shows that the golden age of the Simpsons ended in Season 10”.