You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.

Posted to user@mahout.apache.org by robpd <Ro...@yahoo.co.uk> on 2014/01/28 22:44:40 UTC

Why is Mean-Shift Clustering Deprecated?

Hi

Using mahout-0.8 right now and noticed that mean-shift clustering is
deprecated.  Only thing I could find on it is at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1250.  This seems to say that
it is not being used much - right? Any other reasons it's deprecated (e.g.
reliability)?

Main question is what could replace this useful technique in which one does
not have to know a priori the number of clusters to form?  I guess, after
mean-shift clustering is finally removed from the codebase it will be
possible to achieve the same effect using, first, canopy-clustering to
discover the number of clusters then a KMeans thereafter. Correct?

thks.

Rob



--
View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Why-is-Mean-Shift-Clustering-Deprecated-tp4114065.html
Sent from the Mahout User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.