In the previous chapter, we discussed Canopy clustering and used Mahout to run Canopy clustering. In this chapter, we will discuss a new algorithm in clustering—Fuzzy K-means. Fuzzy clustering is also called soft clustering because data points can belongs to more than one cluster. Fuzzy K-means clustering is also called Fuzzy C-Means (FCM). We will discuss the following topics in this chapter:
Learning Fuzzy K-means clustering
Using mahout to execute Fuzzy K-means clustering
Visualizing the Fuzzy K-means cluster using Mahout