Non-Standard Parameter Adaptation for Exploratory Data Analysis

This book first lays the groundwork by reviewing some standard clustering algorithms and projection algorithms before presenting various non-standard criteria for clustering, and considers extensions of the basic mappings which maintain some topology of the original data space.

Abstract

Exploratory data analysis, also known as data mining or knowledge discovery from databases, is typically based on the optimisation of a specific function of a dataset. Such optimisation is often perfo