[Numpy-discussion] Support for sparse matrix in Distance function (and clustering)?

Damian Eads eads at soe.ucsc.edu writes: Hi, Can you be more specific? Do you need sparse matrices to represent observation vectors because they are sparse? Or do you need sparse matrices to represent distance matrices because most vectors you are clustering are similar while a few are

[Numpy-discussion] Support for sparse matrix in Distance function (and clustering)?

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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for sparse matrix in Distance function (and clustering)?

Hi, Can you be more specific? Do you need sparse matrices to represent observation vectors because they are sparse? Or do you need sparse matrices to represent distance matrices because most vectors you are clustering are similar while a few are dissimilar? The clustering code is written mostly