Spectral clustering is quite complex, but it can reveal patterns in data that aren't revealed by other clustering techniques. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items so that similar ...

Clustering non-numeric -- or categorial -- data is surprisingly difficult, but it's explained here by resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research, who provides all the code you ...

Data mining isn’t just techno-speak for messing around with a lot of data. Data mining doesn’t give you supernatural powers, either. Data mining is a specific way to use specific kinds of math. It’s ...