Apply extended self-organizing map to cluster and classify mixed-type data

  • Authors:
  • Chung-Chian Hsu;Shu-Han Lin;Wei-Shen Tai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin 640, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin 640, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin 640, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Mixed numeric and categorical data are commonly seen nowadays in corporate databases in which precious patterns may be hidden. Analyzing mixed-type data to extract the hidden patterns valuable to decision-making is therefore beneficial and critical for corporations to remain competitive. In addition, visualization facilitates exploration in the early stage of data analysis. In the paper, we present a visualized approach to analyzing multivariate mixed-type data. The proposed framework based on an extended self-organizing map allows visualized data cluster analysis as well as classification. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach by analyzing two real-world datasets and compare with other existing models to show its advantages.