14. How Does K-Means Work?

For some set of data, a value of k centroids will always lead to the exact same clustering of your data.

SOLUTION: False

It is possible to add a centroid in k-means and have the average distance for each point to the nearest centroid to increase.

SOLUTION: False

QUIZ QUESTION::

Match each action to the order in which it occurs in the k-means algorithm.

ANSWER CHOICES:



Step

Process

First

Second

Third

SOLUTION:

Step

Process

Third

First

Second

For any dataset, choosing the number of clusters (k) is simple.

SOLUTION: No, there are a number of possible methods.