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UIC - CS 594 Chapter 5: Clustering Searching for groups Clustering is unsupervised or undirected. Unlike classification, in clustering, no pre-classified data. Search for groups or clusters of data points (records) that are similar to one another. Similar points may mean: similar customers, products, that will behave in similar ways. Group similar points together Group points into classes using some distance measures. Within-cluster distance, and between cluster distance Applications: As a stand-alone tool to get insight into data distribution As a preprocessing step for other algorithms A