extract_centroids: Extract clusters from model

In tidyclust: A Common API to Clustering

Extract clusters from model

Description

When applied to a fitted cluster specification, returns a tibble with cluster location. When such locations doesn't make sense for the model, a mean location is used.

Usage

extract_centroids(object, ...)

Arguments

object	An fitted cluster_spec object.
...	Other arguments passed to methods. Using the prefix allows you to change the prefix in the levels of the factor levels.

Details

Some model types such as K-means as seen in k_means() stores the centroid in the object itself. leading the use of this function to act as an simple extract. Other model types such as Hierarchical (Agglomerative) Clustering as seen in hier_clust(), are fit in such a way that the number of clusters can be determined at any time after the fit. Setting the num_clusters or cut_height in this function will be used to determine the clustering when reported.

Further more, some models like hier_clust(), doesn't have a notion of "centroids". The mean of the observation within each cluster assignment is returned as the centroid.

The ordering of the clusters is such that the first observation in the training data set will be in cluster 1, the next observation that doesn't belong to cluster 1 will be in cluster 2, and so on and forth. As the ordering of clustering doesn't matter, this is done to avoid identical sets of clustering having different labels if fit multiple times.

Related functions

extract_centroids() is a part of a trio of functions doing similar things:

• extract_cluster_assignment() returns the cluster assignments of the training observations

• extract_centroids() returns the location of the centroids

• predict() returns the cluster a new observation belongs to

Value

A tibble::tibble() with 1 row for each centroid and their position. .cluster denotes the cluster name for the centroid. The remaining variables match variables passed into model.

See Also

extract_cluster_assignment() predict.cluster_fit()

Examples

set.seed(1234)
kmeans_spec <- k_means(num_clusters = 5) %>%
  set_engine("stats")

kmeans_fit <- fit(kmeans_spec, ~., mtcars)

kmeans_fit %>%
  extract_centroids()

# Some models such as `hier_clust()` fits in such a way that you can specify
# the number of clusters after the model is fit.
# A Hierarchical (Agglomerative) Clustering method doesn't technically have
# clusters, so the center of the observation within each cluster is returned
# instead.
hclust_spec <- hier_clust() %>%
  set_engine("stats")

hclust_fit <- fit(hclust_spec, ~., mtcars)

hclust_fit %>%
  extract_centroids(num_clusters = 2)

hclust_fit %>%
  extract_centroids(cut_height = 250)

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