Week 5: Clustering

Announcements

Tuesday

Midterm

  • Research questions

  • Literature review

  • Paper format, two-page poster and full length eight-page paper

  • Timeline

  • Team, student pairs

Iris Dataset

Textbooks

All textbooks are free available online, and are optinal, not required.

Thursday

Midterm

  • Research questions

  • Literature review

  • Paper format, two-page poster and full length eight-page paper

  • Timeline

  • Team, student pairs

Clustering

  • More Details

  • K-means

  • DBSCAN

  • Comparison

  • Dataset

Dimmension Reduction

  • Decomposing signals in components

  • Principal component analysis (PCA)

  • Kernel Principal Component Analysis (kPCA)

  • Independent component analysis (ICA)