How to evaluate the best algorithm preform clusters?

halaalrobassyhalaalrobassy Member Posts: 16 Contributor II
edited June 2019 in Help
i have dataset and i want to cluster one feature to three clusters, i choose kmeans, kmedoid and xmean algorithms to preform this clustering then i want to evaluate which algorithm will perform better clustering. 
i put the three algorithms in loop parameter but i couldn't know where can i put the cluster distance performance operator  . i want to see the avg centroid and Davis bouldin measures for each model and according to them then choose the bset model will perform the best clustering . 

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    <output/>
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    <parameter key="send_mail" value="never"/>
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      <operator activated="true" class="retrieve" compatibility="9.2.001" expanded="true" height="68" name="Retrieve Engineering_majors1" width="90" x="45" y="34">
        <parameter key="repository_entry" value="../data/Engineering_majors1"/>
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        <parameter key="synchronize" value="false"/>
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            <parameter key="select_which" value="4"/>
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              <operator activated="true" class="concurrency:k_means" compatibility="9.2.001" expanded="true" height="82" name="Clustering" width="90" x="45" y="85">
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                <parameter key="add_as_label" value="true"/>
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                <parameter key="k" value="5"/>
                <parameter key="max_runs" value="10"/>
                <parameter key="determine_good_start_values" value="true"/>
                <parameter key="measure_types" value="BregmanDivergences"/>
                <parameter key="mixed_measure" value="MixedEuclideanDistance"/>
                <parameter key="nominal_measure" value="NominalDistance"/>
                <parameter key="numerical_measure" value="EuclideanDistance"/>
                <parameter key="divergence" value="SquaredEuclideanDistance"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_type" value="radial"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_gamma" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_sigma1" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_sigma2" value="0.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_sigma3" value="2.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_degree" value="3.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_shift" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_a" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_b" value="0.0"/>
                <parameter key="max_optimization_steps" value="100"/>
                <parameter key="use_local_random_seed" value="false"/>
                <parameter key="local_random_seed" value="1992"/>
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              <connect from_port="input 1" to_op="Clustering" to_port="example set"/>
              <connect from_op="Clustering" from_port="cluster model" to_port="output 1"/>
              <connect from_op="Clustering" from_port="clustered set" to_port="output 2"/>
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                <parameter key="remove_unlabeled" value="false"/>
                <parameter key="k" value="3"/>
                <parameter key="max_runs" value="10"/>
                <parameter key="max_optimization_steps" value="100"/>
                <parameter key="use_local_random_seed" value="true"/>
                <parameter key="local_random_seed" value="1992"/>
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                <parameter key="numerical_measure" value="EuclideanDistance"/>
                <parameter key="divergence" value="GeneralizedIDivergence"/>
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                <parameter key="kernel_gamma" value="1.0"/>
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                <parameter key="kernel_a" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_b" value="0.0"/>
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                <parameter key="add_cluster_attribute" value="true"/>
                <parameter key="add_as_label" value="true"/>
                <parameter key="remove_unlabeled" value="false"/>
                <parameter key="k_min" value="3"/>
                <parameter key="k_max" value="60"/>
                <parameter key="determine_good_start_values" value="true"/>
                <parameter key="measure_types" value="NumericalMeasures"/>
                <parameter key="mixed_measure" value="MixedEuclideanDistance"/>
                <parameter key="nominal_measure" value="NominalDistance"/>
                <parameter key="numerical_measure" value="EuclideanDistance"/>
                <parameter key="divergence" value="GeneralizedIDivergence"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_type" value="radial"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_gamma" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_sigma1" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_sigma2" value="0.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_sigma3" value="2.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_degree" value="3.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_shift" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_a" value="1.0"/>
                <parameter key="kernel_b" value="0.0"/>
                <parameter key="clustering_algorithm" value="KMeans"/>
                <parameter key="max_runs" value="10"/>
                <parameter key="max_optimization_steps" value="100"/>
                <parameter key="use_local_random_seed" value="false"/>
                <parameter key="local_random_seed" value="1992"/>
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              <connect from_op="X-Means" from_port="cluster model" to_port="output 1"/>
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              <portSpacing port="sink_output 3" spacing="0"/>
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          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="cluster_distance_performance" compatibility="9.2.001" expanded="true" height="103" name="Performance" width="90" x="380" y="85">
            <parameter key="main_criterion" value="Avg. within centroid distance"/>
            <parameter key="main_criterion_only" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="normalize" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="maximize" value="false"/>
          </operator>
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          <connect from_op="Performance" from_port="cluster model" to_port="result 2"/>
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          <portSpacing port="source_input 2" spacing="0"/>
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          <portSpacing port="sink_result 3" spacing="0"/>
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      </operator>
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      <connect from_op="Loop Parameters" from_port="result 1" to_port="result 1"/>
      <connect from_op="Loop Parameters" from_port="result 2" to_port="result 2"/>
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  • halaalrobassyhalaalrobassy Member Posts: 16 Contributor II
    thanks alot @Telcontar120
    yes i have a pirior cluster number for column values.just i want to ask you what do you mean by doing some logging for the result. I also want to optimize the performance of the clustering, is it possible ,if yes can you tell me how , please .
  • halaalrobassyhalaalrobassy Member Posts: 16 Contributor II
    thank you, your advices really helped me
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