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Birch: An efficient data clustering method for very large databases By Tian Zhang, Raghu Ramakrishnan Outline What is data clustering Data clustering applications Previous Approaches and problems Birch’s Goal Clustering Feature Birch clustering algorithm Experiment results and conclusion What is Data Clustering? A cluster is a closely-packed group. A collection of data objects that are similar to one another and treated collectively as a group. Data Clustering is the partitioning of a dataset into clusters Data Clustering Helps understand the natural grouping or structure in a dataset Provid