Re: [Databionic-ESOM-User] cluster Nber determination

[Niko E. <ne...@ne...>]

On  0, Slimane OULAD NAOUI <oul...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
> i am a CS student and i have to implement a clustering solution in web usage mining framework.
> i found your consistant & interesting tool. and first would like to encourage you for this important work.
> i trained the tool with relatively the same data set and have 6 clusters on result. my question is how the number of clusters is determined. and if there is a method to interpret this result
>  

Hi,

well the number of clusters depends mostly on your data. As to the
interpretation you have to look at the cluster-data. What do the have in common that other clusters have not. It might be useful to check the component maps,
to see which component is dominant in a particular part of the map.

Greets, 

Niko