Class: Ai4r::Clusterers::Clusterer

Inherits:

Object

• Object
• Ai4r::Clusterers::Clusterer

Includes:

Data::Parameterizable

Defined in:

lib/ai4r/clusterers/clusterer.rb

Overview

The purpose of this class is to define a common API for Clusterers. All methods in this class (other than eval) must be implemented in subclasses.

Direct Known Subclasses

Diana, KMeans, SingleLinkage

Instance Method Summary

• #build(data_set, number_of_clusters) ⇒ Object

  Build a new clusterer, using data examples found in data_set.

• #eval(data_item) ⇒ Object

  Classifies the given data item, returning the cluster it belongs to.

Methods included from Data::Parameterizable

#get_parameters, included, #set_parameters

Instance Method Details

#build(data_set, number_of_clusters) ⇒ Object

Build a new clusterer, using data examples found in data_set. Data items will be clustered in “number_of_clusters” different clusters.

Raises:

• (NotImplementedError)

# File 'lib/ai4r/clusterers/clusterer.rb', line 25

def build(data_set, number_of_clusters)
  raise NotImplementedError
end

#eval(data_item) ⇒ Object

Classifies the given data item, returning the cluster it belongs to.

Raises:

• (NotImplementedError)

# File 'lib/ai4r/clusterers/clusterer.rb', line 30

def eval(data_item)
  raise NotImplementedError
end