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scikit-learn Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from  scikit-learn Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286382
Pages 374 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Trent Hauck Trent Hauck
Profile icon Trent Hauck

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. High-Performance Machine Learning – NumPy 2. Pre-Model Workflow and Pre-Processing 3. Dimensionality Reduction 4. Linear Models with scikit-learn 5. Linear Models – Logistic Regression 6. Building Models with Distance Metrics 7. Cross-Validation and Post-Model Workflow 8. Support Vector Machines 9. Tree Algorithms and Ensembles 10. Text and Multiclass Classification with scikit-learn 11. Neural Networks 12. Create a Simple Estimator

Optimizing the number of centroids

When doing k-means clustering, we really do not know the right number of clusters in advance, so finding this out is an important step. Once we know (or estimate) the number of centroids, the problem will start to look more like a classification one as our knowledge to work with will have increased substantially.

Getting ready

Evaluating the model performance for unsupervised techniques is a challenge. Consequently, sklearn has several methods for evaluating clustering when a ground truth is known, and very few for when it isn't.

We'll start with a single cluster model and evaluate its similarity. This is more for the purpose of mechanics as measuring the similarity of one cluster...

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