What Is the Difference Between Hierarchical and Partitional clustering?

Jason LZP
3 min readNov 16, 2019

Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique which is exploratory in nature and does not have a defined target or output. Clustering is often done to undercover hidden patterns within a dataset or for real-world uses such as market segmentation.

In this post, I would be mainly discuss about the difference between Hierarchical and…

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