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Introduction to Fuzzy c-means for Clustering Algorithm
Basic introduction and implementation of Fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm using Python
There are a lot of clustering algorithms out there for the numerical data type. The k-means is one of the basic clustering algorithms that is commonly used by the researcher or analyst. But have you ever heard about the Fuzzy c-means before for clustering? If you haven’t, this article is for you.
In this short article, you will explore the Fuzzy c-means, starting from the basic structure of fuzzy, manual calculation and formula of Fuzzy c-means, and the implementation of Fuzzy c-means in Python using dummy data.
Okay, without further ado, let’s jump in!
Hard partition vs. fuzzy partition
Before talking about the basic theory of Fuzzy c-means, firstly better we talk about how the data points are theoretically allocated into clusters. Basically, there are two approaches, hard partition and fuzzy partition.
Hard partition — where the data points are strictly allocated as a member of one cluster and are not a member of another cluster, assuming that the number of clusters is known. The k-means is one of the…
