Research Article

A Comparative Application on Clustering of Mixed-type Data Sets with kamila, k-means, k-medoids and k-prototypes Algorithms

Volume: 20 Number: 2 November 30, 2019
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A Comparative Application on Clustering of Mixed-type Data Sets with kamila, k-means, k-medoids and k-prototypes Algorithms

Abstract

Cluster Analysis is one of the crucial tools which is being used in many areas of scientific researches. As known, there are many algorithms for performing Cluster Analysis.
Nowadays, the main two debates relating to these algorithms are; which one to use for mixedtype data sets and how to decide selecting the best number of clusters. In this study, KAMILA algorithm which is created very ambitiously and other algorithms used before KAMILA such as k-means, k-medoids and k-prototypes algorithms will be performed for clustering the values
of different scaled variables. With this aim, a data set of a grocery store in Istanbul will be analyzed. The company has stores in different districts of Istanbul and the customers have different demographic characteristics and different purchasing behaviors. The data set provided for 999 customers includes information such as; whether the customers are purchasing the product categories that are crucial for the company's profitability and how much the total price of the purchased items are. These data were subjected to clustering analysis for customer segmentation. As a result, it is observed that KAMILA algorithm can successfully identify the customers in the segment that can be named the gold segment.

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Primary Language

Turkish

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

November 30, 2019

Submission Date

January 2, 2019

Acceptance Date

November 1, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 20 Number: 2

APA
Bilgiç, E. (2019). KARMA TİPTEKİ VERİLERİ KAMILA, K-ORTALAMALAR, KORTAYLAR ve K-PROTOTİPLER ALGORİTMALARIYLA KÜMELEME: KARŞILAŞTIRMALI BİR UYGULAMA. Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, 20(2), 48-70. https://doi.org/10.37880/cumuiibf.507182

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