[SciPy-User] K-means clustering algorithm

Tobjan Brejicz tobangi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 16:41:12 EST 2011


Thanks to you both!

-Tob

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pincus at yale.edu>wrote:

> pycluster works reasonably well too -- all the backend stuff is in C.
>
> http://bonsai.hgc.jp/~mdehoon/software/cluster/software.htm
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Tobjan Brejicz wrote:
> >>   I would like to know about good implementations of clustering-type
> >>   algorithm in scipy, or maybe also in related package.   Specific,
> >> I want
> >>   to do k-means clustering.
> >>   Does someone recommend the k-means clustering implementation?   For
> >>   example, to constrast scipy and scikits.learn and some other
> >> examples?
> >
> > Scipy's k-means works fine. Tle scikit-learn implementation should be
> > faster, but to the cost of depending on an extra package.
> >
> > I would advice you to try both, time the difference on your data, and
> > decide in function of the result.
> >
> > Gael
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