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Normalization/standardization impact on T-SNE and K-means

I have a dataset of 20K samples on 27 features that I am trying to cluster with k-means. The dataset is in its majority rather sparse, i.e. 98% of samples have a single nonzero value in one of its ...
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Meaningful to retrieve original value after standardization using clustering

I already referred these posts here and here. Currently, I am working on customer segmentation using their purchase data. So, my data has below info for each customer Based on the above linked posts ...
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Interpretation of Cluster Distortion on Normalized data

I have a clustering problem which I solved using KMeans clustering. I also know that the Elbow Method for cluster evaluation can be used to approximate a feasible pick for the number of clusters. I ...
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K-means classifies 96% of my data in 1 cluster. Any suggestions to improve the results?

Problem: K-Means clustering shows 96% of my data belongs to one cluster. How can I improve my results or should I conclude that no cluster exists in my dataset. Dbscan clustering shows 1 cluster ...
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K-means clustering scaling

I have a data set of 70 stores with a sales column (ranging from 50M to 70M) and 39 other features, like age group, income categories etc. I need to find the clusters based off of these metrics. A ...
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Normalization/Standarization for Clustering visualization

I'm performing visualization of a dataset clustered with k-means. I compute a weight for each cluster and I draw a circle as big as its weight. But it seems like after the clustering some values are ...
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normalisation in k means clustering on percentages and other numerical variables

I have several variables to include in k-means, some of them are percentages (between 0-1) and some of them are numerical variables (positive values). I know normalisation is required when the ...
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Use a combination of grand mean and group mean centering to standardize variables

I'm using cluster analysis to examine profiles of three variables, X1, X2, and X3. Because ...
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How to perform Normalization on Call Details Record to perform k-Mean Clustering

I'm new to data mining and currently doing mining project on telecom customer segmentation (based on profile and call details record). I have gender, age, call time and call duration and have to ...
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Are mean normalization and feature scaling needed for k-means clustering?

What are the best (recommended) pre-processing steps before performing k-means?
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