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Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis Leonard Kaufman, Peter J. Rousseeuw
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

The information obtained from the organizational survey enabled us to characterize PHC organizations. In contrast to supervised machine learning, unsupervised learning such as cluster analysis can be used independently of prior knowledge to find groups within data. The goal of cluster analysis is to group objects together that are similar. Introduction 1.1 What is cluster analysis? Rousseeuw, Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2005. One of the ultimate goals of .. Humans are essentially a visual species. Our goal was to establish an organizational classification which would group PHC organizations based on their common characteristics. The organizational data were analyzed .. Data in the literature and market collections were organized in an Excel spreadsheet that contained species as rows and sources as columns. Not surprisingly, visualization techniques are at the heart of science and engineering [1]. Cluster analysis is called Q-analysis (finding distinct ethnic groups using data about believes and feelings1), numerical taxonomy (biology), classification analysis (sociology, business, psychology), typology2 and so on. Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Some Basics and Algorithms 1. Cluster analysis is a collection of statistical methods, which identifies groups of samples that behave similarly or show similar characteristics. Most of our sensory neocortex is engaged in the processing of visual inputs that we gather from our surroundings.