[R] Help with 2-D plot of k-mean clustering analysis

[Albyn Jones]

One idea:  Pick the three largest clusters, their centers determine a plane.
project your data into that plane.

albyn

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Claudia Beleites wrote:
> Hi Meng,
> 
> >  I would like to use R to perform k-means clustering on my data which
> >included 33 samples measured with ~1000 variables. I have already used
> >kmeans package for this analysis, and showed that there are 4 clusters in my
> >data. However, it's really difficult to plot this cluster in 2-D format
> >since the "huge" number of variables. One possible way is to project the
> >multidimensional space into 2-D platform, but I could not find any good way
> >to do that. Any suggestions or comments will be really helpful!
> For suggestions it would be extremely helpful to tell us what kind
> of variables your 1000 variables are.
> 
> Parallel coordinate plots plot values over (many) variables. Whether
> this is useful, depends very much on your variables: E.g. I have
> spectral channels, they have an intrinsic order and the values have
> physically the same meaning (and almost the same range), so the
> parallel coordinate plot comes naturally (it produces in fact the
> spectra).
> 
> Claudia
> 
> 
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Meng
> >
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> Claudia Beleites
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