2013/7/23 Olivier Grisel <[email protected]>: > 2013/7/23 Gael Varoquaux <[email protected]>: >> Hi people >> >> How would you like an object that implements different hierarchical >> agglomerative clustering approaches be named? >> >> Options revolve around using the words 'linkage', as it is known in many >> packages as such, 'hierarchical', as it is a fairly standard name for >> these approaches. > > `HierarchicalClustering` sounds good. We already have > `SpectralClustering` as a class name so having `Clustering` in the > class name is fine I think.
I think Linkage puts too much emphasis on one of the parameters. HierarchicalClustering is better but that name could also be used for divisive clustering. How about AgglomerativeClustering? -- Lars Buitinck Scientific programmer, ILPS University of Amsterdam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
