Clustering in high-dimensional spaces presents unique challenges arising from the so-called “curse of dimensionality”, where the volume of the feature space grows exponentially and distances between ...

Cancer is a complex disease that is normally triggered by changes (mutations) in the genome of a given cell. Although some cancer types are promoted by germline variants (i.e. those that we inherit ...

Spectral clustering is quite complex, but it can reveal patterns in data that aren't revealed by other clustering techniques. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items so that similar ...

Clustering non-numeric -- or categorial -- data is surprisingly difficult, but it's explained here by resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research, who provides all the code you ...