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Centroid
The next concept that is crucial for understanding how clustering generally works is the idea of centroids. If you remember your high school geometry, centroids are essentially the centre points of triangles....
K-Means clustering
Euclidean Distance In the previous segments, you got an idea about how clustering works – it groups the objects on the basis of their similarity or closeness to each other.   Now, the next...
Cost Function
Cost Function We can measure the accuracy of our hypothesis function by using a cost function. This takes an average difference (actually a fancier version of an average) of all the results of the hypothesis...
Model and cost function
Model Representation To establish notation for future use, we’ll use x^{(i)}x(i) to denote the “input” variables (living area in this example), also called input features, and y^{(i)}y(i) to denote the...