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Data Mining: Lecture 6-8: CLUSTER ANALYSIS
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  • Ph.D. Shatovskaya T.
  • Department of Computer Science
Chapter 8. Cluster Analysis
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Cluster: a collection of data objects
    • Similar to one another within the same cluster
    • Dissimilar to the objects in other clusters
  • Cluster analysis
    • Grouping a set of data objects into clusters
  • Clustering is unsupervised classification: no predefined classes
  • Typical applications
    • As a stand-alone tool to get insight into data distribution
    • As a preprocessing step for other algorithms
General Applications of Clustering
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  • Pattern Recognition
  • Spatial Data Analysis
    • create thematic maps in GIS by clustering feature spaces
    • detect spatial clusters and explain them in spatial data mining
  • Image Processing
  • Economic Science (especially market research)
  • WWW
    • Document classification
    • Cluster Weblog data to discover groups of similar access patterns
Examples of Clustering Applications
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  • Marketing: Help marketers discover distinct groups in their customer bases, and then use this knowledge to develop targeted marketing programs
  • Land use: Identification of areas of similar land use in an earth observation database
  • Insurance: Identifying groups of motor insurance policy holders with a high average claim cost
  • City-planning: Identifying groups of houses according to their house type, value, and geographical location
  • Earth-quake studies: Observed earth quake epicenters should be clustered along continent faults
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What Is Good Clustering?
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  • A good clustering method will produce high quality clusters with
    • high intra-class similarity
    • low inter-class similarity
  • The quality of a clustering result depends on both the similarity measure used by the method and its implementation.
  • The quality of a clustering method is also measured by its ability to discover some or all of the hidden patterns.
Requirements of Clustering in Data Mining
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  • Scalability
  • Ability to deal with different types of attributes
  • Discovery of clusters with arbitrary shape
  • Minimal requirements for domain knowledge to determine input parameters
  • Able to deal with noise and outliers
  • Insensitive to order of input records
  • High dimensionality
  • Incorporation of user-specified constraints
  • Interpretability and usability
Chapter 8. Cluster Analysis
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
Data Structures
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  • Data matrix
    • (two modes)
  • Dissimilarity matrix
    • (one mode)
Measure the Quality of Clustering
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  • Dissimilarity/Similarity metric: Similarity is expressed in terms of a distance function, which is typically metric: d(i, j)
  • There is a separate “quality” function that measures the “goodness” of a cluster.
  • The definitions of distance functions are usually very different for interval-scaled, boolean, categorical, ordinal and ratio variables.
  • Weights should be associated with different variables based on applications and data semantics.
  • It is hard to define “similar enough” or “good enough”
    • the answer is typically highly subjective.
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Type of data in clustering analysis
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  • Interval-scaled variables:
  • Binary variables:
  • Nominal, ordinal, and ratio variables:
  • Variables of mixed types:
Interval-valued variables
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  • Standardize data
    • Calculate the mean absolute deviation:
    • where
    • Calculate the standardized measurement (z-score)
  • Using mean absolute deviation is more robust than using standard deviation
Binary Variables
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  • A contingency table for binary data
  • Simple matching coefficient (invariant, if the binary variable is symmetric):
  • Jaccard coefficient (noninvariant if the binary variable is asymmetric):
  • Object i
  • Object j
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  • Binary Variables
  • Association coefficient Yule: Q(i,j)= ad-bc/ ad+bc
  • Rassel and Rao coefficient: J(i,j)= a/ a+b+c+d
  • Bravais coefficient: C(i,j)= ad-bc/
  • Hemming distance: H(i,j)= a+d
Dissimilarity between Binary Variables
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  • Example
    • gender is a symmetric attribute
    • the remaining attributes are asymmetric binary
    • let the values Y and P be set to 1, and the value N be set to 0
Nominal Variables
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  • A generalization of the binary variable in that it can take more than 2 states, e.g., red, yellow, blue, green
  • Method 1: Simple matching
    • m: # of matches, p: total # of variables
  • Method 2: use a large number of binary variables
    • creating a new binary variable for each of the M nominal states
Ordinal Variables
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  • An ordinal variable can be discrete or continuous
  • Order is important, e.g., rank
  • Can be treated like interval-scaled
    • replace xif by their rank
    • map the range of each variable onto [0, 1] by replacing i-th object in the f-th variable by
    • compute the dissimilarity using methods for interval-scaled variables
Ratio-Scaled Variables
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  • Ratio-scaled variable: a positive measurement on a nonlinear scale, approximately at exponential scale, such as AeBt or Ae-Bt
  • Methods:
    • treat them like interval-scaled variables—not a good choice! (why?—the scale can be distorted)
    • apply logarithmic transformation
  • yif = log(xif)
    • treat them as continuous ordinal data treat their rank as interval-scaled
Variables of Mixed Types
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  • A database may contain all the six types of variables
    • symmetric binary, asymmetric binary, nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio
  • One may use a weighted formula to combine their effects
    • f is binary or nominal:
      • dij(f) = 0 if xif = xjf , or dij(f) = 1 o.w.
    • f is interval-based: use the normalized distance
    • f is ordinal or ratio-scaled
      • compute ranks rif and
      • and treat zif as interval-scaled
Chapter 8. Cluster Analysis
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
Major Clustering Approaches
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  • Partitioning algorithms: Construct various partitions and then evaluate them by some criterion
  • Hierarchy algorithms: Create a hierarchical decomposition of the set of data (or objects) using some criterion
  • Density-based: based on connectivity and density functions
  • Grid-based: based on a multiple-level granularity structure
  • Model-based: A model is hypothesized for each of the clusters and the idea is to find the best fit of that model to each other
Chapter 8. Cluster Analysis
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
Partitioning Algorithms: Basic Concept
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  • Partitioning method: Construct a partition of a database D of n objects into a set of k clusters
  • Given a k, find a partition of k clusters that optimizes the chosen partitioning criterion
    • Global optimal: exhaustively enumerate all partitions
    • Heuristic methods: k-means and k-medoids algorithms
    • k-means (MacQueen’67): Each cluster is represented by the center of the cluster
    • k-medoids or PAM (Partition around medoids) (Kaufman & Rousseeuw’87): Each cluster is represented by one of the objects in the cluster
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The K-Means Clustering Method
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  • Given k, the k-means algorithm is implemented in four steps:
    • Partition objects into k nonempty subsets
    • Compute seed points as the centroids of the clusters of the current partition (the centroid is the center, i.e., mean point, of the cluster)
    • Assign each object to the cluster with the nearest seed point
    • Go back to Step 2, stop when no more new assignment
The K-Means Clustering Method
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  • K=2
  • Arbitrarily choose K object as initial cluster center
  • Assign each objects to most similar center
  • Update the cluster means
  • Update the cluster means
  • reassign
  • reassign
Comments on the K-Means Method
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  • Strength: Relatively efficient: O(tkn), where n is # objects, k is # clusters, and t is # iterations. Normally, k, t << n.
      • Comparing: PAM: O(k(n-k)2 ), CLARA: O(ks2 + k(n-k))
  • Comment: Often terminates at a local optimum. The global optimum may be found using techniques such as: deterministic annealing and genetic algorithms
  • Weakness
    • Applicable only when mean is defined, then what about categorical data?
    • Need to specify k, the number of clusters, in advance
    • Unable to handle noisy data and outliers
    • Not suitable to discover clusters with non-convex shapes
Variations of the K-Means Method
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  • A few variants of the k-means which differ in
    • Selection of the initial k means
    • Dissimilarity calculations
    • Strategies to calculate cluster means
  • Handling categorical data: k-modes (Huang’98)
    • Replacing means of clusters with modes
    • Using new dissimilarity measures to deal with categorical objects
    • Using a frequency-based method to update modes of clusters
    • A mixture of categorical and numerical data: k-prototype method
What is the problem of k-Means Method?
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  • The k-means algorithm is sensitive to outliers !
    • Since an object with an extremely large value may substantially distort the distribution of the data.
  • K-Medoids: Instead of taking the mean value of the object in a cluster as a reference point, medoids can be used, which is the most centrally located object in a cluster.
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Typical k-medoids algorithm (PAM)
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  • Total Cost = 20
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  • K=2
  • Arbitrary choose k object as initial medoids
  • Assign each remaining object to nearest medoids
  • Randomly select a nonmedoid object,Oramdom
  • Compute total cost of swapping
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  • Swapping O and Oramdom
  • If quality is improved.
  • Do loop
  • Until no change
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What is the problem with PAM?
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  • Pam is more robust than k-means in the presence of noise and outliers because a medoid is less influenced by outliers or other extreme values than a mean
  • Pam works efficiently for small data sets but does not scale well for large data sets.
    • O(k(n-k)2 ) for each iteration
  • where n is # of data,k is # of clusters
  • Sampling based method,
  • CLARA(Clustering LARge Applications)
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CLARA (Clustering Large Applications) (1990)
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  • CLARA (Kaufmann and Rousseeuw in 1990)
    • Built in statistical analysis packages, such as S+
  • It draws multiple samples of the data set, applies PAM on each sample, and gives the best clustering as the output
  • Strength: deals with larger data sets than PAM
  • Weakness:
    • Efficiency depends on the sample size
    • A good clustering based on samples will not necessarily represent a good clustering of the whole data set if the sample is biased
CLARANS (“Randomized” CLARA) (1994)
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  • CLARANS (A Clustering Algorithm based on Randomized Search) (Ng and Han’94)
  • CLARANS draws sample of neighbors dynamically
  • The clustering process can be presented as searching a graph where every node is a potential solution, that is, a set of k medoids
  • If the local optimum is found, CLARANS starts with new randomly selected node in search for a new local optimum
  • It is more efficient and scalable than both PAM and CLARA
  • Focusing techniques and spatial access structures may further improve its performance (Ester et al.’95)
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Chapter 8. Cluster Analysis
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
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  • A Dendrogram Shows How the Clusters are Merged Hierarchically
    • Decompose data objects into a several levels of nested partitioning (tree of clusters), called a dendrogram.
    • A clustering of the data objects is obtained by cutting the dendrogram at the desired level, then each connected component forms a cluster.
A Dendrogram Algorithm for Binary variables
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  • 1. To estimate similarity of objects on the basis of binary attributes and measures of similarity of objects such as Simple matching coefficient, Jaccard coefficient, Rassel and Rao coefficient, Bravais coefficient, association coefficient Yule, Hemming distance.
  • 2.To make a incedence matrix for all objects, where it’s elements is similarity coefficients.
  • 3. Graphically represent a incedence matrix where on an axis х – number of objects, on an axis Y –the measures of similarity. Find in a matrix two most similar objects (with the minimal distance) and put them on the schedule. Iteratively continue construction of the schedule for all objects of the analysis
Example for binary variables
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  • ecoli1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
  • ecoli2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
  • ecoli3 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
  • We have 3 objects with 16 attributes . Define the similarity of objects.
  • 1. Define the similarity on the base of Simple matching coefficient
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  • ecoli2
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  • J12=13/16=0.81
  • J13=12/15=0.8
  • ecoli1
  • ecoli3
Example for binary variables
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  • ecoli2
  • ecoli3
  • 1 0
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  • J23=14/16=0.875
  • 2. Incedence matrix
  • ecoli1
  • ecoli2
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  • ecoli1 ecoli2 ecoli3
  • 0 0.81 0.8
  • 0 0.875
  • 2 1 3
  • 0.8
  • 0.81
  • number
A Dendrogram Algorithm for Numerical variables
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  • 1. To estimate similarity of objects on the basis of numerical attributes and measures of similarity of objects such as distances (slide 14).
  • 2.To make a incedence matrix for all objects, where it’s elements is distances.
  • 3. Graphically represent a incedence matrix where on an axis х – number of objects, on an axis Y –the measures of similarity. Find in a matrix two most similar objects (with the minimal distance) and put them on the schedule. Iteratively continue construction of the schedule for all objects of the analysis
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A Dendrogram Algorithm for Numerical variables
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  • Let us consider five points {x1,….,x5} with the attributes
  • X1=(0,2), x2=(0,0) x3=(1.5,0) x4=(5,0) x5=(5,2)
  • Cluster 2
  • Cluster 1
  • a) single-link distance
  • Cluster 2
  • Cluster 1
  • b) complete-link distance
  • Using Euclidian measure
A Dendrogram Algorithm for Numerical variables
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  • D(x1,x2)=2 D(x1,x3)=2.5 D(x1,x4)=5.39 D(x1,x5)=5
  • D(x2,x3)=1.5 D(x2,x4)=5 D(x2,x5)=5.29
  • D(x3,x4)=3.5 D(x3,x5)=4.03
  • D(x4,x5)=2
  • x2 x3 x1 x4 x5
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  • Dendrogram by single-link method
  • x2 x3 x1 x4 x5
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  • Dendrogram by complete-link method
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Hierarchical Clustering
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  • Use distance matrix as clustering criteria. This method does not require the number of clusters k as an input, but needs a termination condition
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AGNES (Agglomerative Nesting)
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  • Introduced in Kaufmann and Rousseeuw (1990)
  • Implemented in statistical analysis packages, e.g., Splus
  • Use the Single-Link method and the dissimilarity matrix.
  • Merge nodes that have the least dissimilarity
  • Go on in a non-descending fashion
  • Eventually all nodes belong to the same cluster
DIANA (Divisive Analysis)
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  • Introduced in Kaufmann and Rousseeuw (1990)
  • Implemented in statistical analysis packages, e.g., Splus
  • Inverse order of AGNES
  • Eventually each node forms a cluster on its own
More on Hierarchical Clustering Methods
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  • Major weakness of agglomerative clustering methods
    • do not scale well: time complexity of at least O(n2), where n is the number of total objects
    • can never undo what was done previously
  • Integration of hierarchical with distance-based clustering
    • BIRCH (1996): uses CF-tree and incrementally adjusts the quality of sub-clusters
    • CURE (1998): selects well-scattered points from the cluster and then shrinks them towards the center of the cluster by a specified fraction
    • CHAMELEON (1999): hierarchical clustering using dynamic modeling
BIRCH (1996)
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  • Birch: Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies, by Zhang, Ramakrishnan, Livny (SIGMOD’96)
  • Incrementally construct a CF (Clustering Feature) tree, a hierarchical data structure for multiphase clustering
    • Phase 1: scan DB to build an initial in-memory CF tree (a multi-level compression of the data that tries to preserve the inherent clustering structure of the data)
    • Phase 2: use an arbitrary clustering algorithm to cluster the leaf nodes of the CF-tree
  • Scales linearly: finds a good clustering with a single scan and improves the quality with a few additional scans
  • Weakness: handles only numeric data, and sensitive to the order of the data record.
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  • Clustering Feature Vector
  • Clustering Feature: CF = (N, LS, SS)
  • N: Number of data points
  • LS: Ni=1=Xi
  • SS: Ni=1=Xi2
  • CF = (5, (16,30),(54,190))
  • (3,4)
  • (2,6)
  • (4,5)
  • (4,7)
  • (3,8)
CF-Tree in BIRCH
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  • Clustering feature:
    • summary of the statistics for a given subcluster: the 0-th, 1st and 2nd moments of the subcluster from the statistical point of view.
    • registers crucial measurements for computing cluster and utilizes storage efficiently
  • A CF tree is a height-balanced tree that stores the clustering features for a hierarchical clustering
    • A nonleaf node in a tree has descendants or “children”
    • The nonleaf nodes store sums of the CFs of their children
  • A CF tree has two parameters
    • Branching factor: specify the maximum number of children.
    • threshold: max diameter of sub-clusters stored at the leaf nodes
CF Tree
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  • CF1
  • child1
  • CF3
  • child3
  • CF2
  • child2
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  • child6
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  • prev
  • next
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  • prev
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  • B = 7
  • L = 6
  • Root
  • Non-leaf node
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    • Stops the creation of a cluster hierarchy if a level consists of k clusters
    • Uses multiple representative points to evaluate the distance between clusters, adjusts well to arbitrary shaped clusters and avoids single-link effect
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  • Drawbacks of square-error based clustering method
    • Consider only one point as representative of a cluster
    • Good only for convex shaped, similar size and density, and if k can be reasonably estimated
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    • Draw random sample s.
    • Partition sample to p partitions with size s/p
    • Partially cluster partitions into s/pq clusters
    • Eliminate outliers
      • By random sampling
      • If a cluster grows too slow, eliminate it.
    • Cluster partial clusters.
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    • p = 2
    • s/p = 25
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  • Shrink the multiple representative points towards the gravity center by a fraction of .
  • Multiple representatives capture the shape of the cluster
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  • ROCK: Robust Clustering using linKs, by S. Guha, R. Rastogi, K. Shim (ICDE’99).
    • Use links to measure similarity/proximity
    • Not distance based
    • Computational complexity:
  • Basic ideas:
    • Similarity function and neighbors:
      • Let T1 = {1,2,3}, T2={3,4,5}
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  • Links: The number of common neighbors for the two points.
  • Algorithm
    • Draw random sample
    • Cluster with links
  • {1,2,3}, {1,2,4}, {1,2,5}, {1,3,4}, {1,3,5}
  • {1,4,5}, {2,3,4}, {2,3,5}, {2,4,5}, {3,4,5}
  • {1,2,3} {1,2,4}
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CHAMELEON (Hierarchical clustering using dynamic modeling)
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  • CHAMELEON: by G. Karypis, E.H. Han, and V. Kumar’99
  • Measures the similarity based on a dynamic model
    • Two clusters are merged only if the interconnectivity and closeness (proximity) between two clusters are high relative to the internal interconnectivity of the clusters and closeness of items within the clusters
    • Cure ignores information about interconnectivity of the objects, Rock ignores information about the closeness of two clusters
  • A two-phase algorithm
    • Use a graph partitioning algorithm: cluster objects into a large number of relatively small sub-clusters
    • Use an agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm: find the genuine clusters by repeatedly combining these sub-clusters
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  • Construct
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  • Partition the Graph
  • Merge Partition
  • Final Clusters
  • Data Set
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
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  • Clustering based on density (local cluster criterion), such as density-connected points
  • Major features:
    • Discover clusters of arbitrary shape
    • Handle noise
    • One scan
    • Need density parameters as termination condition
  • Several interesting studies:
    • DBSCAN: Ester, et al. (KDD’96)
    • OPTICS: Ankerst, et al (SIGMOD’99).
    • DENCLUE: Hinneburg & D. Keim (KDD’98)
    • CLIQUE: Agrawal, et al. (SIGMOD’98)
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
Grid-Based Clustering Method
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  • Using multi-resolution grid data structure
  • Several interesting methods
    • STING (a STatistical INformation Grid approach) by Wang, Yang and Muntz (1997)
    • WaveCluster by Sheikholeslami, Chatterjee, and Zhang (VLDB’98)
      • A multi-resolution clustering approach using wavelet method
    • CLIQUE: Agrawal, et al. (SIGMOD’98)
STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach
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  • Wang, Yang and Muntz (VLDB’97)
  • The spatial area area is divided into rectangular cells
  • There are several levels of cells corresponding to different levels of resolution
STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach (2)
    • Each cell at a high level is partitioned into a number of smaller cells in the next lower level
    • Statistical info of each cell is calculated and stored beforehand and is used to answer queries
    • Parameters of higher level cells can be easily calculated from parameters of lower level cell
      • count, mean, s, min, max
      • type of distribution—normal, uniform, etc.
    • Use a top-down approach to answer spatial data queries
    • Start from a pre-selected layer—typically with a small number of cells
    • For each cell in the current level compute the confidence interval
STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach (3)
    • Remove the irrelevant cells from further consideration
    • When finish examining the current layer, proceed to the next lower level
    • Repeat this process until the bottom layer is reached
    • Advantages:
      • Query-independent, easy to parallelize, incremental update
      • O(K), where K is the number of grid cells at the lowest level
    • Disadvantages:
      • All the cluster boundaries are either horizontal or vertical, and no diagonal boundary is detected
WaveCluster (1998)
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  • A multi-resolution clustering approach which applies wavelet transform to the feature space
    • A wavelet transform is a signal processing technique that decomposes a signal into different frequency sub-band.
  • Both grid-based and density-based
  • Input parameters:
    • # of grid cells for each dimension
    • the wavelet, and the # of applications of wavelet transform.
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  • How to apply wavelet transform to find clusters
    • Summaries the data by imposing a multidimensional grid structure onto data space
    • These multidimensional spatial data objects are represented in a n-dimensional feature space
    • Apply wavelet transform on feature space to find the dense regions in the feature space
    • Apply wavelet transform multiple times which result in clusters at different scales from fine to coarse
Wavelet Transform
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  • Decomposes a signal into different frequency subbands. (can be applied to n-dimensional signals)
  • Data are transformed to preserve relative distance between objects at different levels of resolution.
  • Allows natural clusters to become more distinguishable
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WaveCluster (1998)
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  • Why is wavelet transformation useful for clustering
    • Unsupervised clustering
    • It uses hat-shape filters to emphasize region where points cluster, but simultaneously to suppress weaker information in their boundary
    • Effective removal of outliers
    • Multi-resolution
    • Cost efficiency
  • Major features:
    • Complexity O(N)
    • Detect arbitrary shaped clusters at different scales
    • Not sensitive to noise, not sensitive to input order
    • Only applicable to low dimensional data
CLIQUE (Clustering In QUEst)
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  • Agrawal, Gehrke, Gunopulos, Raghavan (SIGMOD’98).
  • Automatically identifying subspaces of a high dimensional data space that allow better clustering than original space
  • CLIQUE can be considered as both density-based and grid-based
    • It partitions each dimension into the same number of equal length interval
    • It partitions an m-dimensional data space into non-overlapping rectangular units
    • A unit is dense if the fraction of total data points contained in the unit exceeds the input model parameter
    • A cluster is a maximal set of connected dense units within a subspace
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  • Partition the data space and find the number of points that lie inside each cell of the partition.
  • Identify the subspaces that contain clusters using the Apriori principle
  • Identify clusters:
    • Determine dense units in all subspaces of interests
    • Determine connected dense units in all subspaces of interests.
  • Generate minimal description for the clusters
    • Determine maximal regions that cover a cluster of connected dense units for each cluster
    • Determination of minimal cover for each cluster
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Strength and Weakness of CLIQUE
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  • Strength
    • It automatically finds subspaces of the highest dimensionality such that high density clusters exist in those subspaces
    • It is insensitive to the order of records in input and does not presume some canonical data distribution
    • It scales linearly with the size of input and has good scalability as the number of dimensions in the data increases
  • Weakness
    • The accuracy of the clustering result may be degraded at the expense of simplicity of the method
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
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  • Attempt to optimize the fit between the data and some mathematical model
  • Statistical and AI approach
    • Conceptual clustering
      • A form of clustering in machine learning
      • Produces a classification scheme for a set of unlabeled objects
      • Finds characteristic description for each concept (class)
    • COBWEB (Fisher’87)
      • A popular a simple method of incremental conceptual learning
      • Creates a hierarchical clustering in the form of a classification tree
      • Each node refers to a concept and contains a probabilistic description of that concept
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  • A classification tree
More on Statistical-Based Clustering
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  • Limitations of COBWEB
    • The assumption that the attributes are independent of each other is often too strong because correlation may exist
    • Not suitable for clustering large database data – skewed tree and expensive probability distributions
  • CLASSIT
    • an extension of COBWEB for incremental clustering of continuous data
    • suffers similar problems as COBWEB
  • AutoClass (Cheeseman and Stutz, 1996)
    • Uses Bayesian statistical analysis to estimate the number of clusters
    • Popular in industry
Other Model-Based Clustering Methods
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  • Neural network approaches
    • Represent each cluster as an exemplar, acting as a “prototype” of the cluster
    • New objects are distributed to the cluster whose exemplar is the most similar according to some dostance measure
  • Competitive learning
    • Involves a hierarchical architecture of several units (neurons)
    • Neurons compete in a “winner-takes-all” fashion for the object currently being presented
Model-Based Clustering Methods
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Self-organizing feature maps (SOMs)
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  • Clustering is also performed by having several units competing for the current object
  • The unit whose weight vector is closest to the current object wins
  • The winner and its neighbors learn by having their weights adjusted
  • SOMs are believed to resemble processing that can occur in the brain
  • Useful for visualizing high-dimensional data in 2- or 3-D space
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
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  • What are outliers?
    • The set of objects are considerably dissimilar from the remainder of the data
    • Example: Sports: Michael Jordon, Wayne Gretzky, ...
  • Problem
    • Find top n outlier points
  • Applications:
    • Credit card fraud detection
    • Telecom fraud detection
    • Customer segmentation
    • Medical analysis
Outlier Discovery: Statistical Approaches
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  • Assume a model underlying distribution that generates data set (e.g. normal distribution)
  • Use discordancy tests depending on
    • data distribution
    • distribution parameter (e.g., mean, variance)
    • number of expected outliers
  • Drawbacks
    • most tests are for single attribute
    • In many cases, data distribution may not be known
Outlier Discovery: Distance-Based Approach
  • Introduced to counter the main limitations imposed by statistical methods
    • We need multi-dimensional analysis without knowing data distribution.
  • Distance-based outlier: A DB(p, D)-outlier is an object O in a dataset T such that at least a fraction p of the objects in T lies at a distance greater than D from O
  • Algorithms for mining distance-based outliers
    • Index-based algorithm
    • Nested-loop algorithm
    • Cell-based algorithm
Outlier Discovery: Deviation-Based Approach
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  • Identifies outliers by examining the main characteristics of objects in a group
  • Objects that “deviate” from this description are considered outliers
  • sequential exception technique
    • simulates the way in which humans can distinguish unusual objects from among a series of supposedly like objects
  • OLAP data cube technique
    • uses data cubes to identify regions of anomalies in large multidimensional data
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  • What is Cluster Analysis?
  • Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
  • A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
  • Partitioning Methods
  • Hierarchical Methods
  • Density-Based Methods
  • Grid-Based Methods
  • Model-Based Clustering Methods
  • Outlier Analysis
  • Summary
Problems and Challenges
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  • Considerable progress has been made in scalable clustering methods
    • Partitioning: k-means, k-medoids, CLARANS
    • Hierarchical: BIRCH, CURE
    • Density-based: DBSCAN, CLIQUE, OPTICS
    • Grid-based: STING, WaveCluster
    • Model-based: Autoclass, Denclue, Cobweb
  • Current clustering techniques do not address all the requirements adequately
  • Constraint-based clustering analysis: Constraints exist in data space (bridges and highways) or in user queries
Constraint-Based Clustering Analysis
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  • Clustering analysis: less parameters but more user-desired constraints, e.g., an ATM allocation problem
Clustering With Obstacle Objects
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  • Taking obstacles into account
  • Not Taking obstacles into account
Summary
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  • Cluster analysis groups objects based on their similarity and has wide applications
  • Measure of similarity can be computed for various types of data
  • Clustering algorithms can be categorized into partitioning methods, hierarchical methods, density-based methods, grid-based methods, and model-based methods
  • Outlier detection and analysis are very useful for fraud detection, etc. and can be performed by statistical, distance-based or deviation-based approaches
  • There are still lots of research issues on cluster analysis, such as constraint-based clustering
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