Practising Unsupervised Learning:
hierarchical agglomerative clustering

Prof. Dr. Mirco Schoenfeld

It’s your turn

  1. Download the task sheet
  2. Open the task sheet in RStudio
  3. Fill the gaps to apply a hierarchical agglomerative clustering
    If you want to read what a function (e.g. hclust) does use ? to access its documentation (i.e. ?hclust)

It’s your turn

What are the effects of different linkage strategies?

Which strategy yields best results? And why?