Data Mining:

Concepts and Techniques

— Chapter 7 —

Jiawei Han
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.cs.uiuc.edu/~hanj
©2006 Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, All rights reserved

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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 What is Cluster Analysis?
 Cluster: a collection of data objects
 Similar to one another within the same cluster
 Dissimilar to the objects in other clusters
 Cluster analysis
 Finding similarities between data according to the
characteristics found in the data and grouping similar
data objects into clusters
 Unsupervised learning: no predefined classes

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 Quality: What Is Good Clustering?

 A good clustering method will produce high quality

clusters with
 high intra-class similarity
 low inter-class similarity
 The quality of a clustering result depends on both the
similarity measure used by the method and its
implementation
 The quality of a clustering method is also measured by its
ability to discover some or all of the hidden patterns

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 Measure the Quality of Clustering

 Dissimilarity/Similarity metric: Similarity is expressed in

terms of a distance function, typically metric: d(i, j)
 There is a separate “quality” function that measures the
“goodness” of a cluster.
 The definitions of distance functions are usually very
different for interval-scaled, boolean, categorical, ordinal
ratio, and vector variables.
 Weights should be associated with different variables
based on applications and data semantics.
 It is hard to define “similar enough” or “good enough”
 the answer is typically highly subjective.
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 Requirements of Clustering in Data Mining
 Scalability
 Ability to deal with different types of attributes
 Discovery of clusters with arbitrary shape
 Minimal requirements for domain knowledge to
determine input parameters
 Able to deal with noise and outliers
 Incremental clustering and insensitive to order of input
records
 High dimensionality
 Incorporation of user-specified constraints
 Interpretability and usability
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 Data Structures
 Data matrix (object by variable)
 x11 ... x1f ... x1p 
 (two modes)  
...  ... ... ... ... 
x ... xif ... xip 
 i1 
 ... ... ... ... ... 
x ... xnf ... xnp 
 n1 

 Dissimilarity matrix (object by object)

 0 
 (one mode)  d(2,1) 0 
 
 d(i, j) is the measured  d(3,1) d ( 3,2) 0 
 
 : : : 
difference or dissimilarity d ( n,1) d ( n,2) ... ... 0
between objects i and j.
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 Type of data in clustering analysis

 Interval-scaled variables
 Binary variables
 Nominal, ordinal, and ratio variables
 Variables of mixed types

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 Interval-valued variables

 Standardize data
 Calculate the mean absolute deviation:
s f  1n (| x1 f  m f |  | x2 f  m f | ... | xnf  m f |)

where m f  1n (x1 f  x2 f  ...  xnf )

.

 Calculate the standardized measurement (z-score)

xif  m f
zif  sf

 Using mean absolute deviation is more robust than using

standard deviation

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 Similarity and Dissimilarity Between
Objects

 Distances are normally used to measure the similarity or

dissimilarity between two data objects
 Some popular ones include: Minkowski distance:
d (i, j)  q (| x  x |q  | x  x |q ... | x  x |q )
i1 j1 i2 j 2 in jn
where i = (xi1, xi2, …, xin) and j = (xj1, xj2, …, xjn) are
two n-dimensional data objects, and q is a positive
integer
 If q = 1, d is Manhattan distance
d (i, j) | x  x |  | x  x | ... | x  x |
i1 j1 i2 j 2 in jn

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 Similarity and Dissimilarity Between
Objects (Cont.)

 If q = 2, d is Euclidean distance:
d (i, j)  (| x  x |2  | x  x |2 ... | x  x |2 )
i1 j1 i2 j 2 in jn
 Properties
 d(i,j)  0
 d(i,i) = 0
 d(i,j) = d(j,i)
 d(i,j)  d(i,k) + d(k,j)

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 Binary Variables
Object j
1 0 sum
 A contingency table for 1 a b a b
Object i
binary data 0 c d cd
sum a  c b  d p

 Distance measure for bc

d (i, j) 
symmetric binary variables: a bc  d
 Distance measure for
d (i, j)  bc
asymmetric binary variables: a bc
 Jaccard coefficient (similarity
simJaccard (i, j)  a
measure for asymmetric a bc
binary variables):
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 Dissimilarity between Binary Variables

 Example
Name Gender Fever Cough Test-1 Test-2 Test-3 Test-4
Jack M Y N P N N N
Mary F Y N P N P N
Jim M Y P N N N N

 gender is a symmetric attribute

 the remaining attributes are asymmetric binary
 let the values Y and P be set to 1, and the value N be set to 0
01
d ( jack , mary )   0.33
2 01
11
d ( jack , jim )   0.67
111
1 2
d ( jim , mary )   0.75
11 2
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 Nominal Variables

 A generalization of the binary variable in that it can take

more than 2 states, e.g., red, yellow, blue, green
 Method 1: Simple matching
 m: # of matches, p: total # of variables
d (i, j)  p 
p
m

 Method 2: use a large number of binary variables

 creating a new binary variable for each of the M
nominal states

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 Object identifier Test-1 Test-2 (ordinal) Test-3
(nominal) (numeric)
1 Code-A Excellent 445
2 Code-B Fair 22
3 Code-C Good 164
4 Code-A Excellent 1210

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 Ordinal Variables

 An ordinal variable can be discrete or continuous

 Order is important, e.g., rank
 Can be treated like interval-scaled
rif {1,..., M f }
 replace xif by their rank
 map the range of each variable onto [0, 1] by replacing
i-th object in the f-th variable by
rif 1
zif 
M f 1

 compute the dissimilarity using methods for interval-

scaled variables
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 Ratio-Scaled Variables

 Methods:
 treat them like interval-scaled variables—not a good
choice! (why?—the scale can be distorted)
 apply logarithmic transformation to a ratio-scaled
variable f having value xif for object i
yif = log(xif)
 Treat xif as continuous ordinal data and treat their
ranks as interval-valued

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  Test-3 (numeric)
 445 2.65
 22 1.34
 164 2.21
 1210 3.08

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 Variables of Mixed Types

 A database may contain all the six types of variables

 symmetric binary, asymmetric binary, nominal,

ordinal, interval and ratio

 One may use a weighted formula to combine their
effects  pf  1 ij( f ) d ij( f )
d (i, j ) 
 pf  1 ij( f )

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 Vector Objects

 Vector objects: keywords in documents, gene

features in micro-arrays, etc.
 Broad applications: information retrieval, biologic
taxonomy, etc.

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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Major Clustering Approaches (I)

 Partitioning approach:
 Construct various partitions and then evaluate them by some criterion,
e.g., minimizing the sum of square errors
 Typical methods: k-means, k-medoids, CLARANS
 Hierarchical approach:
 Create a hierarchical decomposition of the set of data (or objects) using
some criterion
 Typical methods: Diana, Agnes, BIRCH, ROCK, CAMELEON
 Density-based approach:
 Based on connectivity and density functions
 Typical methods: DBSACN, OPTICS, DenClue

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 Major Clustering Approaches (II)
 Grid-based approach:
 based on a multiple-level granularity structure
 Typical methods: STING, WaveCluster, CLIQUE
 Model-based:
 A model is hypothesized for each of the clusters and tries to find the best
fit of that model to each other
 Typical methods: EM, SOM, COBWEB
 Frequent pattern-based:
 Based on the analysis of frequent patterns
 Typical methods: pCluster
 User-guided or constraint-based:
 Clustering by considering user-specified or application-specific constraints
 Typical methods: COD (obstacles), constrained clustering
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 Typical Alternatives to Calculate the Distance
between Clusters
 Single link: smallest distance between an element in one cluster and
an element in the other, i.e., dis(Ki, Kj) = min(tip, tjq)

 Complete link: largest distance between an element in one cluster

and an element in the other, i.e., dis(Ki, Kj) = max(tip, tjq)

 Average: avg distance between an element in one cluster and an

element in the other, i.e., dis(Ki, Kj) = avg(tip, tjq)

 Centroid: distance between the centroids of two clusters, i.e., dis(K i,

Kj) = dis(Ci, Cj)

 Medoid: distance between the medoids of two clusters, i.e., dis(K i, Kj)
= dis(Mi, Mj)
 Medoid: one chosen, centrally located object in the cluster
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 Centroid, Radius and Diameter of a
Cluster (for numerical data sets)
 Centroid: the “middle” of a cluster iN 1(t )
Cm  N
ip

 Radius: square root of average distance from any point of the

cluster to its centroid
 N (t  cm ) 2
Rm  i 1 ip
N
 Diameter: square root of average mean squared distance between
all pairs of points in the cluster

 N  N (t  t ) 2
Dm  i 1 i 1 ip iq
N ( N 1)

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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Partitioning Algorithms: Basic Concept
 Partitioning method: Construct a partition of a database D of n objects
into a set of k clusters, s.t., min sum of squared distance
ik1 pCi (p  mi ) 2

 Given a k, find a partition of k clusters that optimizes the chosen

partitioning criterion
 Global optimal: exhaustively enumerate all partitions
 Heuristic methods: k-means and k-medoids algorithms
 k-means (MacQueen’67): Each cluster is represented by the center
of the cluster
 k-medoids or PAM (Partition around medoids) (Kaufman &
Rousseeuw’87): Each cluster is represented by one of the objects
in the cluster

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 The K-Means Clustering Method

 Given k, the k-means algorithm is implemented in

four steps:
 Partition objects into k nonempty subsets
 Compute seed points as the centroids of the
clusters of the current partition (the centroid is the
center, i.e., mean point, of the cluster)
 Assign each object to the cluster with the nearest
seed point
 Go back to Step 2, stop when no more new
assignment

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 The K-Means Clustering Method

 Example
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Assign 3 Update 3

the
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each
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cluster 1

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 means 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

similar
center reassign reassign
10 10

K=2 9 9

8 8

Arbitrarily choose K 7 7

6 6
object as initial 5 5

cluster center 4 Update 4

2
the 3

1 cluster 1

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
means 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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 Comments on the K-Means Method

 Strength: Relatively efficient: O(tkn), where n is # objects, k is #

clusters, and t is # iterations. Normally, k, t << n.
 Comparing: PAM: O(k(n-k)2 )
 Comment: Often terminates at a local optimum. The global optimum
may be found using techniques such as: deterministic annealing and
genetic algorithms
 Weakness
 Applicable only when mean is defined, then what about categorical
data?
 Need to specify k, the number of clusters, in advance
 Unable to handle noisy data and outliers
 Not suitable to discover clusters with non-convex shapes
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 Variations of the K-Means Method

 A few variants of the k-means which differ in

 Selection of the initial k means
 Dissimilarity calculations
 Strategies to calculate cluster means
 Handling categorical data: k-modes (Huang’98)
 Replacing means of clusters with modes
 Using new dissimilarity measures to deal with categorical objects
 Using a frequency-based method to update modes of clusters
 A mixture of categorical and numerical data: k-prototype method

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What Is the Problem of the K-Means Method?

 The k-means algorithm is sensitive to outliers !

 Since an object with an extremely large value may substantially
distort the distribution of the data.
 K-Medoids: Instead of taking the mean value of the object in a
cluster as a reference point, medoids can be used, which is the most
centrally located object in a cluster.

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 The K-Medoids Clustering Method

 Find representative objects, called medoids, in clusters

 PAM (Partitioning Around Medoids, 1987)
 starts from an initial set of medoids and iteratively replaces one
of the medoids by one of the non-medoids if it improves the
total distance of the resulting clustering
 PAM works effectively for small data sets, but does not scale
well for large data sets
 CLARA (Kaufmann & Rousseeuw, 1990)
 CLARANS (Ng & Han, 1994): Randomized sampling
 Focusing + spatial data structure (Ester et al., 1995)

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 A Typical K-Medoids Algorithm (PAM)
Total Cost = 20
10 10 10

9 9 9

8 8 8

Arbitrary Assign
7 7 7

6 6 6

5
choose k 5 each 5

4 object as 4 remainin 4

3
initial 3
g object 3

2
medoids 2
to 2

nearest
1 1 1

0 0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
medoids 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

K=2 Randomly select a

Total Cost = 26 nonmedoid object,Oramdom
10 10

Do loop 9
Compute
9

Swapping O
8 8

total cost of
Until no
7 7

and Oramdom 6
swapping 6

change
5 5

If quality is 4 4

improved. 3

2
3

1 1

0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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 PAM (Partitioning Around Medoids) (1987)

 PAM (Kaufman and Rousseeuw, 1987), built in Splus

 Use real object to represent the cluster
 Select k representative objects arbitrarily
 For each pair of non-selected object h and selected
object i, calculate the total swapping cost TCih
 For each pair of i and h,
 If TCih < 0, i is replaced by h
 Then assign each non-selected object to the most
similar representative object
 repeat steps 2-3 until there is no change
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 PAM Clustering: Total swapping cost TCih=jCjih
10 10

9 9
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7 7

5
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i
1 1

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Cjih = d(j, h) - d(j, i) Cjih = 0

10
10

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9

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j
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 What Is the Problem with PAM?

 Pam is more robust than k-means in the presence of

noise and outliers because a medoid is less influenced by
outliers or other extreme values than a mean
 Pam works efficiently for small data sets but does not
scale well for large data sets.
 O(k(n-k)2 ) for each iteration
where n is # of data,k is # of clusters
 Sampling based method,
CLARA(Clustering LARge Applications)

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 CLARA (Clustering Large Applications) (1990)

 CLARA (Kaufmann and Rousseeuw in 1990)

 Built in statistical analysis packages, such as S+
 It draws multiple samples of the data set, applies PAM on
each sample, and gives the best clustering as the output
 Strength: deals with larger data sets than PAM
 Weakness:
 Efficiency depends on the sample size
 A good clustering based on samples will not necessarily
represent a good clustering of the whole data set if the
sample is biased
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 CLARANS (“Randomized” CLARA) (1994)

 CLARANS (A Clustering Algorithm based on Randomized

Search) (Ng and Han’94)
 CLARANS draws sample of neighbors dynamically
 The clustering process can be presented as searching a
graph where every node is a potential solution, that is, a
set of k medoids
 If the local optimum is found, CLARANS starts with new
randomly selected node in search for a new local optimum
 It is more efficient and scalable than both PAM and CLARA
 Focusing techniques and spatial access structures may
further improve its performance (Ester et al.’95)
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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Hierarchical Clustering

 Use distance matrix as clustering criteria. This method

does not require the number of clusters k as an input,
but needs a termination condition
Step 0 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4
agglomerative
(AGNES)
a ab
b abcde
c
cde
d
de
e
divisive
Step 4 Step 3 Step 2 Step 1 Step 0 (DIANA)
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 AGNES (Agglomerative Nesting)
 Introduced in Kaufmann and Rousseeuw (1990)
 Implemented in statistical analysis packages, e.g., Splus
 Use the Single-Link method and the dissimilarity matrix.
 Merge nodes that have the least dissimilarity
 Go on in a non-descending fashion
 Eventually all nodes belong to the same cluster
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Dendrogram: Shows How the Clusters are Merged

Decompose data objects into a several levels of nested

partitioning (tree of clusters), called a dendrogram.

A clustering of the data objects is obtained by cutting the

dendrogram at the desired level, then each connected
component forms a cluster.

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 DIANA (Divisive Analysis)

 Introduced in Kaufmann and Rousseeuw (1990)

 Implemented in statistical analysis packages, e.g., Splus
 Inverse order of AGNES
 Eventually each node forms a cluster on its own

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 Recent Hierarchical Clustering Methods

 Major weakness of agglomerative clustering methods

 do not scale well: time complexity of at least O(n2),
where n is the number of total objects
 can never undo what was done previously
 Integration of hierarchical with distance-based clustering
 BIRCH (1996): uses CF-tree and incrementally adjusts
the quality of sub-clusters
 ROCK (1999): clustering categorical data by neighbor
and link analysis
 CHAMELEON (1999): hierarchical clustering using
dynamic modeling
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 BIRCH (1996)
 Birch: Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using
Hierarchies (Zhang, Ramakrishnan & Livny, SIGMOD’96)
 Incrementally construct a CF (Clustering Feature) tree, a
hierarchical data structure for multiphase clustering
 Phase 1: scan DB to build an initial in-memory CF tree (a
multi-level compression of the data that tries to preserve
the inherent clustering structure of the data)
 Phase 2: use an arbitrary clustering algorithm to cluster
the leaf nodes of the CF-tree
 Scales linearly: finds a good clustering with a single scan and
improves the quality with a few additional scans
 Weakness: handles only numeric data, and sensitive to the
order of the data record.
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 Clustering Feature Vector in BIRCH

Clustering Feature: CF = (N, LS, SS)

N: Number of data points
LS: Ni=1=Xi
SS: Ni=1=Xi2 CF = (5, (16,30),(54,190))
10

9
(3,4)
(2,6)
8

(4,5)
5

1
(4,7)
(3,8)
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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 CF-Tree in BIRCH

 Clustering feature:
 summary of the statistics for a given subcluster: the 0-th, 1st and
2nd moments of the subcluster from the statistical point of view.
 registers crucial measurements for computing cluster and utilizes
storage efficiently
A CF tree is a height-balanced tree that stores the clustering features
for a hierarchical clustering
 A nonleaf node in a tree has descendants or “children”
 The nonleaf nodes store sums of the CFs of their children
 A CF tree has two parameters
 Branching factor: specify the maximum number of children.
 threshold: max diameter of sub-clusters stored at the leaf nodes
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 The CF Tree Structure
Root

B=7 CF1 CF2 CF3 CF6

L=6 child1 child2 child3 child6

Non-leaf node
CF1 CF2 CF3 CF5
child1 child2 child3 child5

Leaf node Leaf node

prev CF1 CF2 CF6 next prev CF1 CF2 CF4 next

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Clustering Categorical Data: The ROCK Algorithm

 ROCK: RObust Clustering using linKs

 S. Guha, R. Rastogi & K. Shim, ICDE’99

 Major ideas
 Use links to measure similarity/proximity

 Not distance-based

 Computational complexity: O(n 2  nmmma  n 2 log n)

 Algorithm: sampling-based clustering
 Draw random sample

 Cluster with links

 Label data in disk

 Experiments
 Congressional voting, mushroom data

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 Similarity Measure in ROCK
 Traditional measures for categorical data may not work well, e.g.,
Jaccard coefficient
 Example: Two groups (clusters) of transactions
 C1. <a, b, c, d, e>: {a, b, c}, {a, b, d}, {a, b, e}, {a, c, d}, {a,
c, e}, {a, d, e}, {b, c, d}, {b, c, e}, {b, d, e}, {c, d, e}
 C2. <a, b, f, g>: {a, b, f}, {a, b, g}, {a, f, g}, {b, f, g}
 Jaccard co-efficient may lead to wrong clustering result
 C1: 0.2 ({a, b, c}, {b, d, e}} to 0.5 ({a, b, c}, {a, b, d})
 C1 & C2: could be as high as 0.5 ({a, b, c}, {a, b, f})
 Jaccard co-efficient-based similarity function: Sim( T1 , T2 )  T1  T2
T1  T2
 Ex. Let T1 = {a, b, c}, T2 = {c, d, e}
{c} 1
Sim (T 1, T 2)    0 .2
{a, b, c, d , e} 5

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 Link Measure in ROCK
 Links: # of common neighbors
 C1 <a, b, c, d, e>: {a, b, c}, {a, b, d}, {a, b, e}, {a, c, d}, {a, c,
e}, {a, d, e}, {b, c, d}, {b, c, e}, {b, d, e}, {c, d, e}
 C2 <a, b, f, g>: {a, b, f}, {a, b, g}, {a, f, g}, {b, f, g}

 Let T1 = {a, b, c}, T2 = {c, d, e}, T3 = {a, b, f}

 link(T1, T2) = 4, since they have 4 common neighbors
 {a, c, d}, {a, c, e}, {b, c, d}, {b, c, e}
 link(T1, T3) = 3, since they have 3 common neighbors
 {a, b, d}, {a, b, e}, {a, b, g}
 Thus link is a better measure than Jaccard coefficient
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 CHAMELEON: Hierarchical Clustering Using
Dynamic Modeling (1999)
 CHAMELEON: by G. Karypis, E.H. Han, and V. Kumar’99
 Measures the similarity based on a dynamic model
 Two clusters are merged only if the interconnectivity and closeness
(proximity) between two clusters are high relative to the internal
interconnectivity of the clusters and closeness of items within the
clusters
 Cure ignores information about interconnectivity of the objects,
Rock ignores information about the closeness of two clusters
 A two-phase algorithm
1. Use a graph partitioning algorithm: cluster objects into a large
number of relatively small sub-clusters
2. Use an agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm: find the
genuine clusters by repeatedly combining these sub-clusters
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 Overall Framework of CHAMELEON

Construct
Sparse Graph Partition the Graph

Data Set

Merge Partition

Final Clusters

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 CHAMELEON (Clustering Complex Objects)

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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Density-Based Clustering Methods
 Clustering based on density (local cluster criterion), such
as density-connected points
 Major features:

Discover clusters of arbitrary shape

Handle noise

One scan

Need density parameters as termination condition
 Several interesting studies:
 DBSCAN: Ester, et al. (KDD’96)

 OPTICS: Ankerst, et al (SIGMOD’99).

 DENCLUE: Hinneburg & D. Keim (KDD’98)

 CLIQUE: Agrawal, et al. (SIGMOD’98) (more grid-

based)
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 Density-Based Clustering: Basic Concepts
 Two parameters:
 Eps: Maximum radius of the neighbourhood
 MinPts: Minimum number of points in an Eps-
neighbourhood of that point
 NEps(p): {q belongs to D | dist(p,q) <= Eps}
 Directly density-reachable: A point p is directly density-
reachable from a point q w.r.t. Eps, MinPts if
 p belongs to NEps(q)
p MinPts = 5
 core point condition: q
Eps = 1 cm
|NEps (q)| >= MinPts
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 Density-Reachable and Density-Connected
 Density-reachable:
 A point p is density-reachable p
from a point q w.r.t. Eps, MinPts if p1
there is a chain of points p1, …, q
pn, p1 = q, pn = p such that pi+1 is
directly density-reachable from pi
 Density-connected
p q
 A point p is density-connected to a
point q w.r.t. Eps, MinPts if there
o
is a point o such that both, p and
q are density-reachable from o
w.r.t. Eps and MinPts
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 DBSCAN: Density Based Spatial Clustering of
Applications with Noise
 Relies on a density-based notion of cluster: A cluster is
defined as a maximal set of density-connected points
 Discovers clusters of arbitrary shape in spatial databases
with noise

Outlier

Border
Eps = 1cm
Core MinPts = 5

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 DBSCAN: The Algorithm

 Arbitrary select a point p

 Retrieve all points density-reachable from p w.r.t. Eps
and MinPts.
 If p is a core point, a cluster is formed.
 If p is a border point, no points are density-reachable
from p and DBSCAN visits the next point of the database.
 Continue the process until all of the points have been
processed.

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 DBSCAN: Sensitive to Parameters

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 CHAMELEON (Clustering Complex Objects)

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 OPTICS: A Cluster-Ordering Method (1999)

 OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering

Structure
 Ankerst, Breunig, Kriegel, and Sander (SIGMOD’99)

 Produces a special order of the database wrt its

density-based clustering structure

 This cluster-ordering contains info equiv to the density-

based clusterings corresponding to a broad range of

parameter settings
 Good for both automatic and interactive cluster

analysis, including finding intrinsic clustering structure

 Can be represented graphically or using visualization

techniques
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 OPTICS: Some Extension from
DBSCAN
 Index-based:

k = number of dimensions

N = 20

p = 75% D

M = N(1-p) = 5
 Complexity: O(kN2)
 Core Distance p1

 Reachability Distance o
p2 o
Max (core-distance (o), d (o, p))
MinPts = 5
r(p1, o) = 2.8cm. r(p2,o) = 4cm
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of the objects 76
 Density-Based Clustering: OPTICS & Its Applications

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 DENCLUE: Using Statistical Density
Functions
 DENsity-based CLUstEring by Hinneburg & Keim (KDD’98)
d ( x , y )2

 Using statistical density functions: f Gaussian ( x , y )  e 2 2

d ( x , xi ) 2

( x )  i 1 e
D N
2 2
f Gaussian

d ( x , xi ) 2

( x, xi )  i 1 ( xi  x)  e
N
 Major features f D
Gaussian
2 2

 Solid mathematical foundation

 Good for data sets with large amounts of noise
 Allows a compact mathematical description of arbitrarily shaped
clusters in high-dimensional data sets
 Significant faster than existing algorithm (e.g., DBSCAN)
 But needs a large number of parameters
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 Denclue: Technical Essence

 Uses grid cells but only keeps information about grid

cells that do actually contain data points and manages
these cells in a tree-based access structure
 Influence function: describes the impact of a data point
within its neighborhood
 Overall density of the data space can be calculated as
the sum of the influence function of all data points
 Clusters can be determined mathematically by
identifying density attractors
 Density attractors are local maximal of the overall
density function

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 Density Attractor

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 Center-Defined and Arbitrary

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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Grid-Based Clustering Method

 Using multi-resolution grid data structure

 Several interesting methods
 STING (a STatistical INformation Grid approach) by Wang,
Yang and Muntz (1997)
 WaveCluster by Sheikholeslami, Chatterjee, and Zhang
(VLDB’98)
 A multi-resolution clustering approach using wavelet
method
 CLIQUE: Agrawal, et al. (SIGMOD’98)
 On high-dimensional data (thus put in the section of clustering
high-dimensional data

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STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach

 Wang, Yang and Muntz (VLDB’97)

 The spatial area area is divided into rectangular cells
 There are several levels of cells corresponding to different
levels of resolution

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 The STING Clustering Method

 Each cell at a high level is partitioned into a number of

smaller cells in the next lower level
 Statistical info of each cell is calculated and stored
beforehand and is used to answer queries
 Parameters of higher level cells can be easily calculated from
parameters of lower level cell
 count, mean, s, min, max

 type of distribution—normal, uniform, etc.

 Use a top-down approach to answer spatial data queries

 Start from a pre-selected layer—typically with a small
number of cells
 For each cell in the current level compute the confidence
interval
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 Comments on STING
 Remove the irrelevant cells from further consideration
 When finish examining the current layer, proceed to the
next lower level
 Repeat this process until the bottom layer is reached
 Advantages:
 Query-independent, easy to parallelize, incremental
update
 O(K), where K is the number of grid cells at the lowest
level
 Disadvantages:
 All the cluster boundaries are either horizontal or
vertical, and no diagonal boundary is detected
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 WaveCluster: Clustering by Wavelet Analysis (1998)

 Sheikholeslami, Chatterjee, and Zhang (VLDB’98)

 A multi-resolution clustering approach which applies wavelet
transform to the feature space
 How to apply wavelet transform to find clusters
 Summarizes the data by imposing a multidimensional grid
structure onto data space
 These multidimensional spatial data objects are represented in a
n-dimensional feature space
 Apply wavelet transform on feature space to find the dense
regions in the feature space
 Apply wavelet transform multiple times which result in clusters at
different scales from fine to coarse
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 Wavelet Transform
 Wavelet transform: A signal processing technique that
decomposes a signal into different frequency sub-band
(can be applied to n-dimensional signals)
 Data are transformed to preserve relative distance
between objects at different levels of resolution
 Allows natural clusters to become more distinguishable

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 The WaveCluster Algorithm
 Input parameters
 # of grid cells for each dimension

 the wavelet, and the # of applications of wavelet transform

 Why is wavelet transformation useful for clustering?

 Use hat-shape filters to emphasize region where points cluster,

but simultaneously suppress weaker information in their

boundary
 Effective removal of outliers, multi-resolution, cost effective

 Major features:
 Complexity O(N)

 Detect arbitrary shaped clusters at different scales

 Not sensitive to noise, not sensitive to input order

 Only applicable to low dimensional data

 Both grid-based and density-based

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 Quantization
& Transformation
 First, quantize data into m-D grid
structure, then wavelet transform
 a) scale 1: high resolution

 b) scale 2: medium resolution

 c) scale 3: low resolution

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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis

1. What is Cluster Analysis?

2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Model-Based Clustering

 What is model-based clustering?

 Attempt to optimize the fit between the given data and

some mathematical model

 Based on the assumption: Data are generated by a

mixture of underlying probability distribution

 Typical methods
 Statistical approach

 EM (Expectation maximization), AutoClass

 Machine learning approach
 COBWEB, CLASSIT
 Neural network approach
 SOM (Self-Organizing Feature Map)
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 EM — Expectation Maximization
 EM — A popular iterative refinement algorithm
 An extension to k-means
 Assign each object to a cluster according to a weight (prob.
distribution)
 New means are computed based on weighted measures
 General idea
 Starts with an initial estimate of the parameter vector
 Iteratively rescores the patterns against the mixture density
produced by the parameter vector
 The rescored patterns are used to update the parameter updates
 Patterns belonging to the same cluster, if they are placed by their
scores in a particular component
 Algorithm converges fast but may not be in global optima

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The EM (Expectation Maximization) Algorithm

 Initially, randomly assign k cluster centers

 Iteratively refine the clusters based on two steps
 Expectation step: assign each data point X to cluster C
i i
with the following probability

 Maximization step:
 Estimation of model parameters

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 Conceptual Clustering
 Conceptual clustering
 A form of clustering in machine learning

 Produces a classification scheme for a set of unlabeled

objects
 Finds characteristic description for each concept (class)

 COBWEB (Fisher’87)
 A popular a simple method of incremental conceptual

learning
 Creates a hierarchical clustering in the form of a

classification tree
 Each node refers to a concept and contains a

probabilistic description of that concept

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 COBWEB Clustering Method
A classification tree

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 More on Conceptual Clustering
 Limitations of COBWEB
 The assumption that the attributes are independent of each other is
often too strong because correlation may exist
 Not suitable for clustering large database data – skewed tree and
expensive probability distributions
 CLASSIT
 an extension of COBWEB for incremental clustering of continuous
data
 suffers similar problems as COBWEB
 AutoClass (Cheeseman and Stutz, 1996)
 Uses Bayesian statistical analysis to estimate the number of clusters
 Popular in industry

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 Neural Network Approach
 Neural network approaches
 Represent each cluster as an exemplar, acting as a

“prototype” of the cluster

 New objects are distributed to the cluster whose

exemplar is the most similar according to some

distance measure
 Typical methods
 SOM (Soft-Organizing feature Map)

 Competitive learning

 Involves a hierarchical architecture of several units (neurons)

 Neurons compete in a “winner-takes-all” fashion for the
object currently being presented

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 Self-Organizing Feature Map (SOM)
 SOMs, also called topological ordered maps, or Kohonen Self-Organizing
Feature Map (KSOMs)
 It maps all the points in a high-dimensional source space into a 2 to 3-d
target space, s.t., the distance and proximity relationship (i.e., topology)
are preserved as much as possible
 Similar to k-means: cluster centers tend to lie in a low-dimensional
manifold in the feature space
 Clustering is performed by having several units competing for the
current object
 The unit whose weight vector is closest to the current object wins
 The winner and its neighbors learn by having their weights adjusted
 SOMs are believed to resemble processing that can occur in the brain
 Useful for visualizing high-dimensional data in 2- or 3-D space

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 Web Document Clustering Using SOM
 The result of
SOM clustering
of 12088 Web
articles
 The picture on
the right: drilling
down on the
keyword
“mining”
 Based on
websom.hut.fi
Web page

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 Chapter 6. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Clustering High-Dimensional Data
 Clustering high-dimensional data
 Many applications: text documents, DNA micro-array data
 Major challenges:
 Many irrelevant dimensions may mask clusters
 Distance measure becomes meaningless—due to equi-distance
 Clusters may exist only in some subspaces
 Methods
 Feature transformation: only effective if most dimensions are relevant
 PCA & SVD useful only when features are highly correlated/redundant
 Feature selection: wrapper or filter approaches
 useful to find a subspace where the data have nice clusters
 Subspace-clustering: find clusters in all the possible subspaces
 CLIQUE, ProClus, and frequent pattern-based clustering
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 The Curse of Dimensionality
(graphs adapted from Parsons et al. KDD Explorations 2004)

 Data in only one dimension is relatively

packed
 Adding a dimension “stretch” the
points across that dimension, making
them further apart
 Adding more dimensions will make the
points further apart—high dimensional
data is extremely sparse
 Distance measure becomes
meaningless—due to equi-distance

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 Why Subspace Clustering?
(adapted from Parsons et al. SIGKDD Explorations 2004)

 Clusters may exist only in some subspaces

 Subspace-clustering: find clusters in all the subspaces

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 CLIQUE (Clustering In QUEst)

 Agrawal, Gehrke, Gunopulos, Raghavan (SIGMOD’98)

 Automatically identifying subspaces of a high dimensional data space
that allow better clustering than original space
 CLIQUE can be considered as both density-based and grid-based
 It partitions each dimension into the same number of equal length
interval
 It partitions an m-dimensional data space into non-overlapping
rectangular units
 A unit is dense if the fraction of total data points contained in the
unit exceeds the input model parameter
 A cluster is a maximal set of connected dense units within a
subspace
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 CLIQUE: The Major Steps

 Partition the data space and find the number of points that
lie inside each cell of the partition.
 Identify the subspaces that contain clusters using the
Apriori principle
 Identify clusters
 Determine dense units in all subspaces of interests
 Determine connected dense units in all subspaces of
interests.
 Generate minimal description for the clusters
 Determine maximal regions that cover a cluster of

connected dense units for each cluster

 Determination of minimal cover for each cluster

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 Strength and Weakness of CLIQUE

 Strength
 automatically finds subspaces of the highest
dimensionality such that high density clusters exist in
those subspaces
 insensitive to the order of records in input and does not

presume some canonical data distribution

 scales linearly with the size of input and has good

scalability as the number of dimensions in the data

increases
 Weakness
 The accuracy of the clustering result may be degraded

at the expense of simplicity of the method

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 Frequent Pattern-Based Approach
 Clustering high-dimensional space (e.g., clustering text documents,
microarray data)
 Projected subspace-clustering: which dimensions to be projected
on?
 CLIQUE, ProClus
 Feature extraction: costly and may not be effective?
 Using frequent patterns as “features”
 “Frequent” are inherent features
 Mining freq. patterns may not be so expensive
 Typical methods
 Frequent-term-based document clustering
 Clustering by pattern similarity in micro-array data (pClustering)

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 Clustering by Pattern Similarity (p-Clustering)

 Right: The micro-array “raw” data

shows 3 genes and their values in a
multi-dimensional space
 Difficult to find their patterns
 Bottom: Some subsets of dimensions
form nice shift and scaling patterns

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 Why p-Clustering?
 Microarray data analysis may need to
 Clustering on thousands of dimensions (attributes)
 Discovery of both shift and scaling patterns
 Clustering with Euclidean distance measure? — cannot find shift patterns
 Clustering on derived attribute Aij = ai – aj? — introduces N(N-1) dimensions
 Bi-cluster using transformed mean-squared residue score matrix (I, J)

1 1 1
d   d d   d d   d
ij | J | ij Ij | I | i  I ij IJ | I || J | i  I , j  J ij
 Where jJ
 A submatrix is a δ-cluster if H(I, J) ≤ δ for some δ > 0
 Problems with bi-cluster
 No downward closure property,
 Due to averaging, it may contain outliers but still within δ-threshold
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 p-Clustering: Clustering
by Pattern Similarity
 Given object x, y in O and features a, b in T, pCluster is a 2 by 2
matrix  d xa d xb 
pScore (   ) | (d xa  d xb )  (d ya  d yb ) |
d ya d yb 
 A pair (O, T) is in δ-pCluster if for any 2 by 2 matrix X in (O, T),
pScore(X) ≤ δ for some δ > 0
 Properties of δ-pCluster
 Downward closure
 Clusters are more homogeneous than bi-cluster (thus the name:
pair-wise Cluster)
 Pattern-growth algorithm has been developed for efficient mining
d xa / d ya
 For scaling patterns, one can observe, taking logarithmic on 
d xb / d yb
will lead to the pScore form
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 Chapter 6. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Why Constraint-Based Cluster Analysis?
 Need user feedback: Users know their applications the best
 Less parameters but more user-desired constraints, e.g., an
ATM allocation problem: obstacle & desired clusters

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A Classification of Constraints in Cluster Analysis
 Clustering in applications: desirable to have user-guided
(i.e., constrained) cluster analysis
 Different constraints in cluster analysis:
 Constraints on individual objects (do selection first)

 Cluster on houses worth over $300K

 Constraints on distance or similarity functions
 Weighted functions, obstacles (e.g., rivers, lakes)
 Constraints on the selection of clustering parameters
 # of clusters, MinPts, etc.
 User-specified constraints
 Contain at least 500 valued customers and 5000 ordinary ones
 Semi-supervised: giving small training sets as
“constraints” or hints
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 Clustering With Obstacle Objects
 K-medoids is more preferable since
k-means may locate the ATM center
in the middle of a lake
 Visibility graph and shortest path
 Triangulation and micro-clustering
 Two kinds of join indices (shortest-
paths) worth pre-computation
 VV index: indices for any pair of
obstacle vertices
 MV index: indices for any pair of
micro-cluster and obstacle
indices
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 Clustering with User-Specified Constraints
 Example: Locating k delivery centers, each serving at least
m valued customers and n ordinary ones
 Proposed approach
 Find an initial “solution” by partitioning the data set into k

groups and satisfying user-constraints

 Iteratively refine the solution by micro-clustering

relocation (e.g., moving δ μ-clusters from cluster Ci to Cj)

and “deadlock” handling (break the microclusters when
necessary)
 Efficiency is improved by micro-clustering

 How to handle more complicated constraints?

 E.g., having approximately same number of valued

customers in each cluster?! — Can you solve it?

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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 What Is Outlier Discovery?
 What are outliers?
 The set of objects are considerably dissimilar from the

remainder of the data

 Example: Sports: Michael Jordon, Wayne Gretzky, ...

 Problem: Define and find outliers in large data sets

 Applications:
 Credit card fraud detection

 Telecom fraud detection

 Customer segmentation

 Medical analysis

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 Outlier Discovery:
Statistical Approaches

 Assume a model underlying distribution that generates

data set (e.g. normal distribution)
 Use discordancy tests depending on
 data distribution

 distribution parameter (e.g., mean, variance)

 number of expected outliers

 Drawbacks
 most tests are for single attribute

 In many cases, data distribution may not be known

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 Outlier Discovery: Distance-Based Approach

 Introduced to counter the main limitations imposed by

statistical methods
 We need multi-dimensional analysis without knowing

data distribution
 Distance-based outlier: A DB(p, D)-outlier is an object O
in a dataset T such that at least a fraction p of the
objects in T lies at a distance greater than D from O
 Algorithms for mining distance-based outliers
 Index-based algorithm

 Nested-loop algorithm

 Cell-based algorithm

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 Density-Based Local
Outlier Detection
 Distance-based outlier detection
is based on global distance
distribution
 It encounters difficulties to
identify outliers if data is not
uniformly distributed  Local outlier factor (LOF)
 Assume outlier is not
 Ex. C1 contains 400 loosely
crisp
distributed points, C2 has 100  Each point has a LOF
tightly condensed points, 2
outlier points o1, o2
 Distance-based method cannot
identify o2 as an outlier
 Need the concept of local outlier

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 Outlier Discovery: Deviation-Based Approach

 Identifies outliers by examining the main characteristics

of objects in a group
 Objects that “deviate” from this description are
considered outliers
 Sequential exception technique
 simulates the way in which humans can distinguish
unusual objects from among a series of supposedly
like objects
 OLAP data cube technique
 uses data cubes to identify regions of anomalies in
large multidimensional data

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 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis
1. What is Cluster Analysis?
2. Types of Data in Cluster Analysis
3. A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods
4. Partitioning Methods
5. Hierarchical Methods
6. Density-Based Methods
7. Grid-Based Methods
8. Model-Based Methods
9. Clustering High-Dimensional Data
10. Constraint-Based Clustering
11. Outlier Analysis
12. Summary
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 Summary
 Cluster analysis groups objects based on their similarity
and has wide applications
 Measure of similarity can be computed for various types
of data
 Clustering algorithms can be categorized into partitioning
methods, hierarchical methods, density-based methods,
grid-based methods, and model-based methods
 Outlier detection and analysis are very useful for fraud
detection, etc. and can be performed by statistical,
distance-based or deviation-based approaches
 There are still lots of research issues on cluster analysis

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 Problems and Challenges

 Considerable progress has been made in scalable

clustering methods
 Partitioning: k-means, k-medoids, CLARANS
 Hierarchical: BIRCH, ROCK, CHAMELEON
 Density-based: DBSCAN, OPTICS, DenClue
 Grid-based: STING, WaveCluster, CLIQUE
 Model-based: EM, Cobweb, SOM
 Frequent pattern-based: pCluster
 Constraint-based: COD, constrained-clustering
 Current clustering techniques do not address all the
requirements adequately, still an active area of research
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