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.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_cluster_plot_linkage_comparison.py:


================================================================
Comparing different hierarchical linkage methods on toy datasets
================================================================

This example shows characteristics of different linkage
methods for hierarchical clustering on datasets that are
"interesting" but still in 2D.

The main observations to make are:

- single linkage is fast, and can perform well on
  non-globular data, but it performs poorly in the
  presence of noise.
- average and complete linkage perform well on
  cleanly separated globular clusters, but have mixed
  results otherwise.
- Ward is the most effective method for noisy data.

While these examples give some intuition about the
algorithms, this intuition might not apply to very high
dimensional data.

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.. code-block:: Python


    import time
    import warnings
    from itertools import cycle, islice

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    from sklearn import cluster, datasets
    from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler








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Generate datasets. We choose the size big enough to see the scalability
of the algorithms, but not too big to avoid too long running times

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    n_samples = 1500
    noisy_circles = datasets.make_circles(
        n_samples=n_samples, factor=0.5, noise=0.05, random_state=170
    )
    noisy_moons = datasets.make_moons(n_samples=n_samples, noise=0.05, random_state=170)
    blobs = datasets.make_blobs(n_samples=n_samples, random_state=170)
    rng = np.random.RandomState(170)
    no_structure = rng.rand(n_samples, 2), None

    # Anisotropicly distributed data
    X, y = datasets.make_blobs(n_samples=n_samples, random_state=170)
    transformation = [[0.6, -0.6], [-0.4, 0.8]]
    X_aniso = np.dot(X, transformation)
    aniso = (X_aniso, y)

    # blobs with varied variances
    varied = datasets.make_blobs(
        n_samples=n_samples, cluster_std=[1.0, 2.5, 0.5], random_state=170
    )








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Run the clustering and plot

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.. code-block:: Python


    # Set up cluster parameters
    plt.figure(figsize=(9 * 1.3 + 2, 14.5))
    plt.subplots_adjust(
        left=0.02, right=0.98, bottom=0.001, top=0.96, wspace=0.05, hspace=0.01
    )

    plot_num = 1

    default_base = {"n_neighbors": 10, "n_clusters": 3}

    datasets = [
        (noisy_circles, {"n_clusters": 2}),
        (noisy_moons, {"n_clusters": 2}),
        (varied, {"n_neighbors": 2}),
        (aniso, {"n_neighbors": 2}),
        (blobs, {}),
        (no_structure, {}),
    ]

    for i_dataset, (dataset, algo_params) in enumerate(datasets):
        # update parameters with dataset-specific values
        params = default_base.copy()
        params.update(algo_params)

        X, y = dataset

        # normalize dataset for easier parameter selection
        X = StandardScaler().fit_transform(X)

        # ============
        # Create cluster objects
        # ============
        ward = cluster.AgglomerativeClustering(
            n_clusters=params["n_clusters"], linkage="ward"
        )
        complete = cluster.AgglomerativeClustering(
            n_clusters=params["n_clusters"], linkage="complete"
        )
        average = cluster.AgglomerativeClustering(
            n_clusters=params["n_clusters"], linkage="average"
        )
        single = cluster.AgglomerativeClustering(
            n_clusters=params["n_clusters"], linkage="single"
        )

        clustering_algorithms = (
            ("Single Linkage", single),
            ("Average Linkage", average),
            ("Complete Linkage", complete),
            ("Ward Linkage", ward),
        )

        for name, algorithm in clustering_algorithms:
            t0 = time.time()

            # catch warnings related to kneighbors_graph
            with warnings.catch_warnings():
                warnings.filterwarnings(
                    "ignore",
                    message="the number of connected components of the "
                    + "connectivity matrix is [0-9]{1,2}"
                    + " > 1. Completing it to avoid stopping the tree early.",
                    category=UserWarning,
                )
                algorithm.fit(X)

            t1 = time.time()
            if hasattr(algorithm, "labels_"):
                y_pred = algorithm.labels_.astype(int)
            else:
                y_pred = algorithm.predict(X)

            plt.subplot(len(datasets), len(clustering_algorithms), plot_num)
            if i_dataset == 0:
                plt.title(name, size=18)

            colors = np.array(
                list(
                    islice(
                        cycle(
                            [
                                "#377eb8",
                                "#ff7f00",
                                "#4daf4a",
                                "#f781bf",
                                "#a65628",
                                "#984ea3",
                                "#999999",
                                "#e41a1c",
                                "#dede00",
                            ]
                        ),
                        int(max(y_pred) + 1),
                    )
                )
            )
            plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], s=10, color=colors[y_pred])

            plt.xlim(-2.5, 2.5)
            plt.ylim(-2.5, 2.5)
            plt.xticks(())
            plt.yticks(())
            plt.text(
                0.99,
                0.01,
                ("%.2fs" % (t1 - t0)).lstrip("0"),
                transform=plt.gca().transAxes,
                size=15,
                horizontalalignment="right",
            )
            plot_num += 1

    plt.show()



.. image-sg:: /auto_examples/cluster/images/sphx_glr_plot_linkage_comparison_001.png
   :alt: Single Linkage, Average Linkage, Complete Linkage, Ward Linkage
   :srcset: /auto_examples/cluster/images/sphx_glr_plot_linkage_comparison_001.png
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