P71Unsupervised LearningIntermediateChoose5 min

Choose Whether to Standardize Features Before K-Means

Decide scaling for distance-based clustering.

#choose#clustering#standardization

Scenario

annual_spend ranges from 500 to 200,000 and purchase_frequency from 1 to 30.

Problem statement

Decide whether to standardize before K-Means.

Your Task

  1. Choose an approach.
  2. Explain distance dominance.
  3. Name a caveat.

Related Concepts

Euclidean distanceK-Means

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