Week 10: Oct 28 – Nov 1
Weekly Objectives
- Understand how K-means and hierarchical clustering works
- Understand the randomness in K-means and know how to deal with
it
- Understand the factors that would influence clustering results
- Use built-in
R
functions kmeans()
and
hclust()
- Understand the SVD interpretation of PCA
- Practice PCA for data visualization using examples in the lecture
notes
Lecture Notes and R Examples
Homework