Why is it that BIRCH encounters difficulties in finding clusters of arbitrary shape but OPTICS does not?
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Why is it that BIRCH encounters difficulties in finding clusters of arbitrary shape but OPTICS does not? Propose modifications to BIRCH to help it find clusters of arbitrary shape.
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BIRCH Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies is a data clustering algorithm that is optimized for large databases It builds a da...View the full answer
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