几种聚类算法的比较

转载： http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net/dev/auto_examples/cluster/plot_cluster_comparison.html

Comparing different clustering algorithms on toy datasets

This example aims at showing characteristics of different clustering algorithms on datasets that are “interesting” but still in 2D. The last dataset is an example of a ‘null’ situation for clustering: the data is homogeneous, and there is no good clustering.

While these examples give some intuition about the algorithms, this intuition might not apply to very high dimensional data.

The results could be improved by tweaking the parameters for each clustering strategy, for instance setting the number of clusters for the methods that needs this parameter specified. Note that affinity propagation has a tendency to create many clusters. Thus in this example its two parameters (damping and per-point preference) were set to to mitigate this behavior.

Python source code: plot_cluster_comparison.py