Data clustering is the process of grouping data items together so that similar items are in the same group/cluster. For strictly numeric data, the k-means clustering technique is relatively simple, ...

Most of the existing clustering approaches are applicable to purely numerical or categorical data only, but not the both. In general, it is a nontrivial task to perform clustering on mixed data ...

According to a 2020 Microstrategy survey, 94% of enterprises report data and data analytics are crucial to their growth strategy. And yet, surprisingly, as much as 73% of the data that enterprises ...

This article develops a generalization of the scatterplot matrix based on the recognition that most datasets include both categorical and quantitative information. Traditional grids of scatterplots ...

In most, if not all, studies we collect data to obtain information about an area of research in which we have an interest. For example, we might want to know the level of dental caries in our area. In ...

Microsoft Excel can perform numerous statistical functions, as well as create charts from statistical data. Statistical data includes numeric variables or word variables, also called categorical ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items together so ...