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Jeff Eastman commented on MAHOUT-843: ------------------------------------- +1 for postprocessing the clustered points into different input directories rather than patching all the clustering algorithms :). It will be interesting to see how the rest of the bottom code for runClustering develops, as only the top clustering is implemented. > Top Down Clustering > ------------------- > > Key: MAHOUT-843 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-843 > Project: Mahout > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Clustering > Affects Versions: 0.6 > Reporter: Paritosh Ranjan > Labels: clustering, patch > Fix For: 0.6 > > Attachments: Top-Down-Clustering-patch > > > Top Down Clustering works in multiple steps. The first step is to find > comparative bigger clusters. The second step is to cluster the bigger chunks > into meaningful clusters. This can performance while clustering big amount of > data. And, it also removes the dependency of providing input clusters/numbers > to the clustering algorithm. > The "big" is a relative term, as well as the smaller "meaningful" terms. So, > the control of this "bigger" and "smaller/meaningful" clusters will be > controlled by the user. > Which clustering algorithm to be used in the top level and which to use in > the bottom level can also be selected by the user. Initially, it can be done > for only one/few clustering algorithms, and later, option can be provided to > use all the algorithms ( which suits the case ). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira