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Simple Machine Learning, Intro to K-Means Clustering

Ryland G on June 20, 2019

This will be the first in a series of tutorials covering a few of the fundamental topics in statistical analysis and machine learning. K-...
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bvmcode

Is this the same as K Nearest Neighbors or are they different models?

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Ryland G

They are different. I do plan to cover K-N-N (K nearest neighbors) in the future. K-n-n can be used for clustering, although its not exactly a clustering algorithm.

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gevorgter

Sorry, to many jokes for some simple explanation. The explanation is lost between "faceboook happy system" and broke investors that paid to rebuild bathrooms.

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Ryland G

Appreciate the feedback. “to many jokes” is a bit of a subjective thing, but I’m worried that the explanation is lost.

Can I ask if you read the entire post or just the intro? Also which part of the algorithm was poorly explained? (be specific, I’m just want to know how to improve)

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Vaibhav Namburi

Naah the jokes are fine mate. Its your style, don't worry about it!

I personally enjoyed the article as someone who's also an ML dev

Most ML blogs are ridiculously boring so the humour makes it ALOT more palpable

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Budy

What a great intro to K-Means...congrats Ryland

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Jaimie Carter

Wow. Thank you for this article. I wanna do this stuff! I will be following.

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Ryland G

Glad to hear you liked it. I will release part 2 next week.

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Rodolfo Mendes

Great article, congratulations!

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Ryland G

Glad to hear it!