K means how to pick up K?
1 min readApr 6, 2020
A general method
Elbow method (clustering)
More advanced method
“It is often ambiguous and not very reliable, and hence other approaches for determining the number of clusters such as the silhouette method are preferable”
Silhouette (clustering)
Reference
[1] How to Choose the Number of Clusters | Advanced Statistical Methods — K-Means Clustering
[3]https://predictivehacks.com/k-means-elbow-method-code-for-python/
[4]http://www.datanovia.com/en/wp-content/uploads/dn-tutorials/004-cluster-validation/figures/