On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Patrick Mihelich <patrick.mihelich@gmail.com
wrote:
I would love to see a nice generic clustering library in Boost. I can't promise much help at this point (I also have a project I've been meaning to pick up again Real Soon Now :-) but let me know when you start working on it again.
I will.
Clustering and spatial indexes have some close connections - as you say, spatial indexes can be used to improve the performance of some clustering algorithms. Likewise, clustering is sometimes used to construct spatial indexes (agglomerative clustering, hierarchical k-means). So, it would be nice for the libraries to play nicely with each other... but more important to get the core functionality in place first, of course.
I agree, on all counts. I'm also looking at it as a starting point for other DM/KDD algorithms. I'd love to build a generic SVM implementation, and there are plenty of others. Jon