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Jeff Eastman commented on MAHOUT-843: ------------------------------------- I applied the patch and had the same conflicts with src/conf/driver.classes.props. There remain a number of unresolved external references which make me unable to run the test. Suggest you need to add at least the TopDownClusteringPathConstants to the patch, maybe more. Can you be more explicit about what is happening in the sequential Canopy overwrite case? Suggest you need to do an svn up before making your next patch file to pick up all the other changes that have happened in the interim. > Top Down Clustering > ------------------- > > Key: MAHOUT-843 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-843 > Project: Mahout > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Clustering > Affects Versions: 0.6 > Reporter: Paritosh Ranjan > Labels: clustering, patch > Fix For: 0.6 > > Attachments: MAHOUT-843-patch, MAHOUT-843-patch-only-postprocessor, > MAHOUT-843-patch-v1, Top-Down-Clustering-patch > > > Top Down Clustering works in multiple steps. The first step is to find > comparative bigger clusters. The second step is to cluster the bigger chunks > into meaningful clusters. This can performance while clustering big amount of > data. And, it also removes the dependency of providing input clusters/numbers > to the clustering algorithm. > The "big" is a relative term, as well as the smaller "meaningful" terms. So, > the control of this "bigger" and "smaller/meaningful" clusters will be > controlled by the user. > Which clustering algorithm to be used in the top level and which to use in > the bottom level can also be selected by the user. Initially, it can be done > for only one/few clustering algorithms, and later, option can be provided to > use all the algorithms ( which suits the case ). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira