Explaining and Implementing Hierarchical Clustering

In this post, I’ll explain what hierarchical clustering is and how to implement it with Python.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
np.random.seed(1234)
N = 10 # number of points
matrix = np.random.rand(N, 2) # N points in 2 dimensional space
M = matrix * 10 # multiply ten so that the numbers are easier to understand. # Otherwise, all numbers are between 0 and 1
M
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