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Published inJan 2019
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Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari
Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari
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Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari

Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari has a Ph.D. in computer science and specializes in machine learning and natural language processing. He is an AI researcher with more than 14 years of industry experience. Currently, he works in the capacity of lead data scientist with a US financial giant. He has published several research papers in Scopus and IEEE journals and is a frequent speaker at various meetups. He is an avid coder and has won multiple hackathons. In his spare time, Sunil likes to teach, travel, and spend time with family.
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In this chapter, we learned about the concept of segmentation and its association with clustering, an ML unsupervised learning technique. We made use of the wholesale dataset available from the UCI repository and implemented clustering using the k-means, DIANA, and AGNES algorithms. During the course of this chapter, we also studied various aspects related to clustering, such as tendency to cluster, distance, linkage measures, and methods to identify the right number of clusters, and measuring the output of clustering. We also explored making use of the clustering output for customer-segmentation purposes.

Can computers see and identify objects and living creatures like humans do? Let's explore the answer to this question in the next chapter.

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Published in: Jan 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789807943

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Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari

Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari has a Ph.D. in computer science and specializes in machine learning and natural language processing. He is an AI researcher with more than 14 years of industry experience. Currently, he works in the capacity of lead data scientist with a US financial giant. He has published several research papers in Scopus and IEEE journals and is a frequent speaker at various meetups. He is an avid coder and has won multiple hackathons. In his spare time, Sunil likes to teach, travel, and spend time with family.
Read more about Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari