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From: Dawid Weiss <dawid.weiss@cs.put.poznan.pl>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 09:01:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: kmeans not returning k clusters
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> - it doesn't have the final pass of in-memory clustering so it really jus=
t
> gives you an indifferent quality clustering with a huge number of weighte=
d
> clusters. =C2=A0With the final pass, it will give you a high quality clus=
tering
> with your specified number of clusters.

I think the "huge number of weighted clusters" can be actually
beneficial in certain applications. Are you going to leave this in as
an option when integrating with Mahout, Ted? Still didn't have time to
look at the code yet ;(

Dawid