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I’ve never found a use case for clustering where if the goal is accurate prediction, some other technique doesn’t work better. Now if the goal is a quick proto
by Xcelerate 2y ago
I’ve never found a use case for clustering where if the goal is accurate prediction, some other technique doesn’t work better.
Now if the goal is a quick prototype or to get an intuitive sense of the structure of the data, then sure, it’s fine.
But of course you’re always sacrificing something desirable when you try to shoehorn data into a model that doesn’t fit.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoI mean, clustering is for actually finding the structure of the data ... It is a collection of structure discovering methods. If one doesn't know the probable structure of course one starts with little knowledge.
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