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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2010
Gary King, Brookline, MA (US);
Justin Grimmer, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gary King, Brookline, MA (US);
Justin Grimmer, Cambridge, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for selecting clusterings to classify a predetermined data set of numerical data comprises five steps. First, a plurality of known clustering methods are applied, one at a time, to the data set to generate clusterings for each method. Second, a metric space of clusterings is generated using a metric that measures the similarity between two clusterings. Third, the metric space is projected to a lower dimensional representation useful for visualization. Fourth, a 'local cluster ensemble' method generates a clustering for each point in the lower dimensional space. Fifth, an animated visualization method uses the output of the local cluster ensemble method to display the lower dimensional space and to allow a user to move around and explore the space of clustering.