Use the elbow method to determine how many clusters unsupervised learning needs

Tracyrenee
6 min readJun 23, 2023

Kaggle has very few competitions that involve clustering, so whenever one crops up, I jump at the chance to make predictions on the clusters.

Clustering is a machine learning technique used to group similar data points together based on their inherent characteristics or similarities. It is an unsupervised learning method, meaning…

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Tracyrenee

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