Validating and Refining Clusters via Visual Rendering

  • Authors:
  • Keke Chen;Ling Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '03 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The automatic clustering algorithms are known towork well in dealing with clusters of regular shapes, e.g.compact spherical/elongated shapes, but may incur highererror rates when dealing with arbitrarily shaped clusters.Although some efforts have been devoted to addressingthe problem of skewed datasets, the problem of handlingclusters with irregular shapes is still in its infancy,especially in terms of dimensionality of the datasets andthe precision of the clustering results considered. Notsurprisingly, the statistical indices works ineffective invalidating clusters of irregular shapes, too. In this paper,we address the problem of clustering and validatingarbitrarily shaped clusters with a visual framework(VISTA). The main idea of the VISTA approach is tocapitalize on the power of visualization and interactivefeedbacks to encourage domain experts to participate inthe clustering revision and clustering validation process.