Clustering Transactional Data

  • Authors:
  • Fosca Giannotti;Cristian Gozzi;Giuseppe Manco

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PKDD '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper we present a partitioning method capable to manage transactions, namelyt uples of variable size of categorical data. We adapt the standard definition of mathematical distance used in the K- Means algorithm to represent dissimilarityam ong transactions, and redefine the notion of cluster centroid. The cluster centroid is used as the representative of the common properties of cluster elements. We show that using our concept of cluster centroid together with Jaccard distance we obtain results that are comparable in qualityw ith the most used transactional clustering approaches, but substantial improve their efficiency.