<p>Clustering algorithms group unlabelled data, such as in the following example:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ZSFTM.png" alt="https://i.sstatic.net/ZSFTM.png"></p>

<p>Which clustering algorithms are similar to how humans do clustering? (e.g. Connectivity based clustering (hierarchical clustering), Centroid-based clustering, Distribution-based clustering, Density-based clustering, and so on).</p>

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2015-03-18T09:44:17.850Z
What do you mean by "how humans cluster data"?
Christian Hummeluhr
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2015-04-24T19:01:34.533Z
I'll expand on @ChristianHummeluhr and ask, what kind of data? in what context? Humans use varying heuristics in different contexts and for differing kinds of data.
Krysta
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I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is on statistics and math
AliceD
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Let me know if you find an answer to this. I'd be curious to know, as well.
Sydney Maples
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there is a good deal of research on human clustering of data (AKA categorization).  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974273/?tool=pmcentrez http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21038975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemplar_theory.  Here's a paper that explicitly connects human category learning to machine learning http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18488638
honi
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To improve the question, you need a line somewhere to link it directly to cognitive sciences.
Tom Au
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What clustering algorithms are most similar to how humans cluster data?
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# What clustering algorithms are most similar to how humans cluster data?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-03-10)

Clustering algorithms group unlabelled data, such as in the following example:

![https://i.sstatic.net/ZSFTM.png](https://i.sstatic.net/ZSFTM.png)

Which clustering algorithms are similar to how humans do clustering? (e.g. Connectivity based clustering (hierarchical clustering), Centroid-based clustering, Distribution-based clustering, Density-based clustering, and so on).

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What do you mean by "how humans cluster data"?  
> **username_2**: I'll expand on @ChristianHummeluhr and ask, what kind of data? in what context? Humans use varying heuristics in different contexts and for differing kinds of data.  
> **username_3**: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is on statistics and math  
> **username_4**: Let me know if you find an answer to this. I'd be curious to know, as well.  
> **username_5**: there is a good deal of research on human clustering of data (AKA categorization).  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974273/?tool=pmcentrez http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21038975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemplar_theory.  Here's a paper that explicitly connects human category learning to machine learning http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18488638  
> **username_6**: To improve the question, you need a line somewhere to link it directly to cognitive sciences.  

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