Agglomerative hierarchical clustering is a simple, intuitive and well-understood method for clustering data points. I used it with good results in a project to estimate the true geographical position of objects based on measured estimates. With this tutorial I would like to describe the basics of this method, how to implement it in R with hclust and some ideas on how to decide where to cut the tree. This was also a great opportunity for composing anohter Shiny/D3.js app (GitHub for the code, shinyapps.io for the app) – something I wanted to do for a while now. At the end of the text I am writing a bit about what I learned in that regard.
Hierarchical Clustering with R (feat. D3.js and Shiny)
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