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

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