Clustering Algorithms and Classification Techniques for More Precise Results

When Do You Use Clustering Algorithms?

When do you use classification techniques?

Here’s our quick video that explains the difference between the two and when you might use each.

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What Are Clustering and Classification?

Clustering and classification are machine learning methods for finding the similarities – and differences – in a set of data or documents. These methods can be used for such tasks as grouping products in a product catalog, finding cohorts of similar customers, or aggregating sets of documents by topic, team, or office.

Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning

Classifications take a set of data that you’ve already manually analyzed and labeled and uses that to train a learning model to then examine a set of new data. This is called supervised learning.

Clustering on the other hand, doesn’t require an existing data set that’s been labeled by humans but still tries to find the groupings and differences in the data. This is called unsupervised learning.

The Crisis of Unlabeled Data

Without clustering algorithms and classification techniques, search results become watered down and non-specific. Business users and admins have to spend too much time manually adjusting relevancy and precision. Let machine learning do the work so you can focus your time and resources where they matter most.

Lucidworks Makes Clustering and Classification Easy

Lucidworks ships with clustering and classification algorithms that are pre-tuned by our data scientists drawing on our expertise with customers around the world. These machine learning methods include popular algorithms and approaches like:

Clustering

Clustering

Classification

Classification

K MeansClustering

K-Means Clustering

K NearestNeighbors

K-Nearest Neighbors

DecisionTrees

Decision Trees

LogisticRegression

Logistic Regression

NaiveBayesModeling

Naive Bayes Modeling

Lucidworks AI capabilities give you full insight and control to test, configure, and deploy these methods to your applications to give every user more precise search results.

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