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Agglomerative clustering is a type of hierarchical clustering that follows a bottom-up approach. In this method, each data point starts as its own individual cluster. The algorithm then iteratively merges the closest clusters based on a defined distance metric until all data points are combined into a single cluster. This process results in a tree-like structure known as a dendrogram, which visually represents the relationships between the clusters.

The steps involved in agglomerative clustering include initializing each data point as a separate cluster, calculating the distance between clusters, determining the linkage criteria for merging, and updating the distance matrix after each merge. This process continues until all data points are grouped into one cluster. The dendrogram produced allows users to decide on the number of clusters by selecting a cut-off point ³⁴.

Agglomerative clustering is widely used in various fields, including biology for phylogenetic analysis, marketing for customer segmentation, and image processing for object recognition.

Feature agglomeration

Scikit-learn Examples

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Scikit-learn Examples

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Towards Data Science

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Scikit-learn Examples

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Scikit-learn Examples

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