Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
See hierarchical clustering.
Created for this library
A retail analytics team uses divisive clustering to split a large customer base into segments starting from a single cluster and recursively dividing it.
A research team uses divisive clustering on news articles to obtain a top-down topic tree for editors to explore.
A pharma research team uses divisive clustering on chemical compounds to expose the largest distinctions first before drilling down.
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