ELI5: Expectation Maximization Clustering

Author(s): Anmol Tomar

Originally published on Towards AI.

The Clustering technique every Data Scientist Should Know

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Imagine you know 100 people and you score them(1–10) based on their personality traits such as funny, interactive, smart, hard-working, etc. Now, you want to find a group of people who are similar in terms of their personality traits. How do we do that?

We perform clustering!

In this blog, I will be covering the following topics:

Clustering & its types.The intuition behind Gaussian Mixture Models(GMM) & Expectation Maximisation(EM).How to pick the number of clusters in EM clustering?When to use EM clustering?Python Implementation of EM.

Let’s get started!

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