Assumptions Can Ruin Your K-Means Clusters Learning Tree Blog

Clustering is one of the most powerful and widely used of the machine learning techniques. Throw some data into the algorithm and let it discover hitherto unknown relationships and patterns. K-means is the most popular of all the cluster algorithms. It's easy to understand--and therefore implement--so it's available in almost all analysis suites. When people are first exposed to machine learning k-means clustering is one of the techniques that creates immediate excitement.