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Rapid - Apache Mahout Clustering designs

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Rapid - Apache Mahout Clustering designs

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Apache Mahout Clustering Designs
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Understanding K-means Clustering

In the previous chapter, we discussed clustering and the different types of clustering in general. In this chapter, we will discuss one of the most popular algorithms in clustering, K-means. We will discuss the following topics in this chapter:

  • Learning K-means

  • Using Mahout to execute K-means

  • Visualizing the K-means cluster using Mahout