Hmm, kmeans algorithmically is supposed to only annoint existing
vectors(documents) as the centroid for a cluster every step (or so I
believe). If mahout is generating non document vector as a centroid, it
changes a lot of things.
That would also explain the -distanceMeasure option in clusterdump. As
Andrew mentions, running clusterdump with the default euclidean measure
should give me the closest document vector to the calculated centroid.
Please correct me if I'm wrong anywhere.
Thanks
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Andrew Musselman <
andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's possible you could write a post-processing step to find the closest
> point to the centroid based on the "distance" property if I'm recalling it
> correctly.
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Ankit Goel <ankitgoel2...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That kind of puts me in a tough position. I was planning to use kmeans
> as a
> > method for aggregating similar articles from multiple news sources, and
> > then getting a representative article from those. Here I mean similar as
> in
> > the articles are from different news sources but are about the exact same
> > thing. Intuitively it seems that these articles would get grouped
> > together. Any suggestions how I should go about that? So far I'm using
> > nutch to crawl, solr to index and now I'm here on mahout.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The most central point in a cluster is often referred to as a medoid
> > > (similar to median, but multi-dimensional).
> > >
> > > The Mahout code does not compute medoids. In general, they are
> difficult
> > > to compute and implementing a full k-medoid clustering algorithm even
> > more
> > > so.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Ankit Goel <ankitgoel2...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Oh, I thought kmeans gave me a point vector as a centroid, not a
> > > calculated
> > > > point central to a cluster. I guess in this case I would be looking
> for
> > > the
> > > > most central point vector (from the index ) that I can use as a
> > > > representative of the cluster.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Andrew Musselman <
> > > > andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm not sure centroid id is even a defined thing, especially since
> > the
> > > > > centroid, in my understanding, is just a point in space, not
> > > necessarily
> > > > a
> > > > > point in your data.
> > > > >
> > > > > Are you trying to find the most-central point in a given cluster?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Ankit Goel <
> ankitgoel2...@gmail.com
> > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > I've been messing with mahout 0.10 and kmeans clustering with a
> > solr
> > > > > 4.6.1
> > > > > > index. The data is news articles. The --field option for kmeans
> is
> > > set
> > > > to
> > > > > > "content". The idField is set to "title" (just so i can analyse
> it
> > > > > faster).
> > > > > > The clusterdump of the kmeans result gives me a proper output,
> but
> > I
> > > > cant
> > > > > > figure out the id of the vector chosen as the center. There are
> > only
> > > > > 14-15
> > > > > > articles so I am not hung up about the cluster performance at
> this
> > > > time.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I used random seeds for the kmeans commandline.
> > > > > > For reference, this is the commandline cluster dump I am
> executing
> > > > > >
> > > > > > bin/mahout clusterdump -i
> $MAHOUT_HOME/testCluster/clusters-3-final
> > > > > > -p $MAHOUT_HOME/testCluster/clusteredPoints -d
> > $MAHOUT_HOME/dict.txt
> > > > -b 5
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The output I get is off the form
> > > > > >
> > > > > > :{"r":
> > > > > >
> > > > > > top terms
> > > > > >
> > > > > > xxxxx==>xxxxx
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Weight : [props - optional]: Point:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1.0 : [distance=0.0]: [{"account":0.026}.......other features]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1.0 : [distance=0.3963903651622338]: [....]
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So how exactly do I get the centroid id? I have even tried
> > accessing
> > > it
> > > > > > with java
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ClusterWritable value.getValue().getCenter() but this just gives
> me
> > > the
> > > > > > features and values of the centroid.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, please do explain the meaning of "account":0.026 (just
> making
> > > > sure
> > > > > I
> > > > > > know it right). I used tfidf.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > Ankit Goel
> > > > > > http://about.me/ankitgoel
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Ankit Goel
> > > > http://about.me/ankitgoel
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Ankit Goel
> > http://about.me/ankitgoel
> >
>
--
Regards,
Ankit Goel
http://about.me/ankitgoel
