Data Processing - Lecture 15 - Data Clustering

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Hierarchical Clustering

1) Calculate distance between each pair of vectors

2) Merge closest two vectors / entities
New entity has average of parents

3) Re-calculate the distances

4) Repeat 1-3 until all vectors / entities are merged

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