ML: K-Means Clustering

Jeheonpark
The Startup
Published in
4 min readSep 23, 2020

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K-means is partitional clustering, the method to partition n data points into k partitions. It is a weird term because clustering is partitioning the data. Actually, partitional clustering gets through the whole data from the beginning to find the k partition. On the other hand, hierarchical clustering starts from a single point. Now, let’s look at K-means

K-means

K-means is just finding the k centroid of the clusters. Centroid means the average of each coordinate of data points in the cluster. The initialization of centroids is really important. I will…

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Jeheonpark
The Startup

Jeheon Park, Software Engineer at Kakao in South Korea