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Comment by Helmut10001

Working in spatial data science, I rarely find applications where k-means is the best tool. The problem is that it is difficult to know how many clusters you can expect on maps. Is it 5; 500; or 10,000? Here HDBSCAN [1] shines because it will cluster _and_ select the most suitable number of clusters, to cut the single linkage cluster tree.

[1]: https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/hdbscan

parent Helmut10001 4 years ago

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