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Review of hierarchical clustering

1. Review of hierarchical clustering

Congratulations, you have now successfully completed the clustering chapters.

2. Hierarchical clustering review

In this latest chapter you have learned to create hierarchical clustering models in R,

3. Linking methods: complete and average

describe how different linkage methods between clusters affect the results of hierarchical clustering,

4. Hierarchical clustering

have gained some intuition

5. Iterating

about how the hierarchical clustering algorithm functions,

6. Dendrogram

saw how to visually represent the results of hierarchical clustering as a dendrogram,

7. How k-means and hierarchical clustering differ

learned the difference between kmeans and hierarchical clustering methods and their outputs,

8. Practical matters

and you have successfully applied hierarchical clustering to the Pokemon dataset, dealing with practical matters like scaling the data.

9. Let's practice!

Let's continue to the third chapter!