Hi Using mahout-0.8 right now and noticed that mean-shift clustering is deprecated. Only thing I could find on it is at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1250. This seems to say that it is not being used much - right? Any other reasons it's deprecated (e.g. reliability)?
Main question is what could replace this useful technique in which one does not have to know a priori the number of clusters to form? I guess, after mean-shift clustering is finally removed from the codebase it will be possible to achieve the same effect using, first, canopy-clustering to discover the number of clusters then a KMeans thereafter. Correct? thks. Rob -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Why-is-Mean-Shift-Clustering-Deprecated-tp4114065.html Sent from the Mahout User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
