A Review Paper on Clustering in Data Mining
kuljit kaur
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Abstract
Clustering is a process of keeping similar data into groups.Objects within the cluster/group have high similarity in comparison to one another but are very dissimilar to objects of other clusters. Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique as every other problem of this kind; it deals with finding a structure in a collection of unlabeled data. Types of clustering methods are–hierarchical and partitioning based. In this paper clustering and its methods are discussed.
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