Why Use K-Means for Time Series Data? (Part One) Blog InfluxData

As an only child, I spent a lot of time by myself. Oftentimes my only respite from the extreme boredom of being by myself was daydreaming. I would meditate on objects in my environment and rotate them around in my head. I now attribute my love of jigsaw puzzles, math, and art to all the time I dedicated to visualization practice. My love for those things inspired me to try and understand more about how statistical functions and K-Means Clustering are used in anomaly detection for time series data.