Discover the basic concepts of cluster analysis, and then study a set of typical clustering methodologies, algorithms, and applications. This includes partitioning methods such as k-means, hierarchical methods such as BIRCH, and density-based methods such as DBSCAN/OPTICS. Moreover, learn methods for clustering validation and evaluation of clustering quality. Finally, see examples of cluster analysis in applications.
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Data Mining SpecializationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbout this Course
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Cluster AnalysisData Clustering AlgorithmsK-Means ClusteringHierarchical Clustering
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got a tangible career benefit from this course
33%
got a pay increase or promotion
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Course 5 of 6 in the
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Approx. 16 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Korean, Russian, English, Spanish
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
1 hour to complete
Course Orientation
You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.
1 hour to complete
1 video (Total 7 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
1 video
3 readings
Syllabus10m
About the Discussion Forums10m
Social Media10m
1 practice exercise
Orientation Quiz30m
2 hours to complete
Module 1
2 hours to complete
13 videos (Total 65 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
13 videos
1.2. Applications of Cluster Analysis2m
1.3 Requirements and Challenges5m
1.4 A Multi-Dimensional Categorization2m
1.5 An Overview of Typical Clustering Methodologies6m
1.6 An Overview of Clustering Different Types of Data6m
1.7 An Overview of User Insights and Clustering3m
2.1 Basic Concepts: Measuring Similarity between Objects3m
2.2 Distance on Numeric Data Minkowski Distance7m
2.3 Proximity Measure for Symetric vs Asymmetric Binary Variables4m
2.4 Distance between Categorical Attributes Ordinal Attributes and Mixed Types4m
2.5 Proximity Measure between Two Vectors Cosine Similarity2m
2.6 Correlation Measures between Two variables Covariance and Correlation Coefficient13m
2 readings
Lesson 1 Overview10m
Lesson 2 Overview10m
2 practice exercises
Lesson 1 Quiz30m
Lesson 2 Quiz30m
5 hours to complete
Week 2
5 hours to complete
15 videos (Total 78 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes
15 videos
3.2 K-Means Clustering Method9m
3.3 Initialization of K-Means Clustering4m
3.4 The K-Medoids Clustering Method6m
3.5 The K-Medians and K-Modes Clustering Methods6m
3.6 Kernel K-Means Clustering8m
4.1 Hierarchical Clustering Methods1m
4.2 Agglomerative Clustering Algorithms8m
4.3 Divisive Clustering Algorithms3m
4.4 Extensions to Hierarchical Clustering3m
4.5 BIRCH: A Micro-Clustering-Based Approach7m
ClusterEnG Overview5m
ClusterEnG: K-Means and K-Medoids3m
ClusterEnG Application: AGNES4m
ClusterEnG Application: DBSCAN2m
3 readings
Lesson 3 Overview10m
Lesson 4 Part 1 Overview10m
ClusterEnG Introduction10m
1 practice exercise
Lesson 3 Quiz30m
2 hours to complete
Week 3
2 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 53 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
9 videos
4.7 CHAMELEON: Graph Partitioning on the KNN Graph of the Data8m
4.8 Probabilistic Hierarchical Clustering7m
5.1 Density-Based and Grid-Based Clustering Methods1m
5.2 DBSCAN: A Density-Based Clustering Algorithm8m
5.3 OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify Clustering Structure9m
5.4 Grid-Based Clustering Methods3m
5.5 STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach3m
5.6 CLIQUE: Grid-Based Subspace Clustering7m
2 readings
Lesson 4 Part 2 Overview10m
Lesson 5 Overview10m
2 practice exercises
Lesson 4 Quiz30m
Lesson 5 Quiz30m
5 hours to complete
Week 4
5 hours to complete
10 videos (Total 57 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes
10 videos
6.2 Clustering Evaluation Measuring Clustering Quality2m
6.3 Constraint-Based Clustering4m
6.4 External Measures 1: Matching-Based Measures10m
6.5 External Measure 2: Entropy-Based Measures7m
6.6 External Measure 3: Pairwise Measures6m
6.7 Internal Measures for Clustering Validation7m
6.8 Relative Measures5m
6.9 Cluster Stability6m
6.10 Clustering Tendency5m
1 reading
Lesson 6 Overview10m
1 practice exercise
Lesson 6 Quiz30m
20 minutes to complete
Course Conclusion
In the course conclusion, feel free to share any thoughts you have on this course experience.
20 minutes to complete
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM CLUSTER ANALYSIS IN DATA MINING
by GLJan 25, 2018
This is a very good course covering all area of clustering. The only thing I feel a little struggle is some algorithm explained too brief, I prefer some detail step by step examples.
by ESDec 17, 2018
This was my favorite course in the whole specialization. Everything is explained very concisely and clearly making the subject matter very easy to understand.
by DBMar 9, 2019
Useful theory. It will be challenging for non-math students. and also lecturer's native language influence iis going to be challening as well to follow along.
by UGApr 27, 2019
Its Good but explanations can done much better, rest all good in terms of study material, quiz ,and programming assignment.
About the Data Mining Specialization
The Data Mining Specialization teaches data mining techniques for both structured data which conform to a clearly defined schema, and unstructured data which exist in the form of natural language text. Specific course topics include pattern discovery, clustering, text retrieval, text mining and analytics, and data visualization. The Capstone project task is to solve real-world data mining challenges using a restaurant review data set from Yelp.
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