Cluster analysis algorithm for identifying line clusters on a map









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I have a reasonably large set of (r,g,b)-colored data points with (x,y)-coordinates that looks like this:



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Before commiting them to my database, I'd like to automatically identify all point clusters ( most of which look like lines ) and attribute a category to each colored point according to which cluster they belong to.



According to the scikit-learn roadmap I should be using either Meanshift or Gaussian mixture models, but I'd like to know if there is any solution available that will also take into account that nearby points that share similar colors are more likely to belong to the same cluster.



I have access to a GPU so any kind of solution is welcome, even if it's based on deep learning.




I tried @mcdowella 's answer and it worked surprisingly well. I ran it over the higher-dimensional version of these points ( which were generated through T-SNE ) by using the HDBSCAN Robust Single Linkage implementation and it approximated many lines without any parameter tuning.



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I have a reasonably large set of (r,g,b)-colored data points with (x,y)-coordinates that looks like this:



enter image description here



Before commiting them to my database, I'd like to automatically identify all point clusters ( most of which look like lines ) and attribute a category to each colored point according to which cluster they belong to.



According to the scikit-learn roadmap I should be using either Meanshift or Gaussian mixture models, but I'd like to know if there is any solution available that will also take into account that nearby points that share similar colors are more likely to belong to the same cluster.



I have access to a GPU so any kind of solution is welcome, even if it's based on deep learning.




I tried @mcdowella 's answer and it worked surprisingly well. I ran it over the higher-dimensional version of these points ( which were generated through T-SNE ) by using the HDBSCAN Robust Single Linkage implementation and it approximated many lines without any parameter tuning.



enter image description here










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    I dont think this is the right place to ask these kinds of questions. Maybe the statistics stack exchange would be more appropriate?
    – Mitchel Paulin
    Nov 10 at 18:01












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I have a reasonably large set of (r,g,b)-colored data points with (x,y)-coordinates that looks like this:



enter image description here



Before commiting them to my database, I'd like to automatically identify all point clusters ( most of which look like lines ) and attribute a category to each colored point according to which cluster they belong to.



According to the scikit-learn roadmap I should be using either Meanshift or Gaussian mixture models, but I'd like to know if there is any solution available that will also take into account that nearby points that share similar colors are more likely to belong to the same cluster.



I have access to a GPU so any kind of solution is welcome, even if it's based on deep learning.




I tried @mcdowella 's answer and it worked surprisingly well. I ran it over the higher-dimensional version of these points ( which were generated through T-SNE ) by using the HDBSCAN Robust Single Linkage implementation and it approximated many lines without any parameter tuning.



enter image description here










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I have a reasonably large set of (r,g,b)-colored data points with (x,y)-coordinates that looks like this:



enter image description here



Before commiting them to my database, I'd like to automatically identify all point clusters ( most of which look like lines ) and attribute a category to each colored point according to which cluster they belong to.



According to the scikit-learn roadmap I should be using either Meanshift or Gaussian mixture models, but I'd like to know if there is any solution available that will also take into account that nearby points that share similar colors are more likely to belong to the same cluster.



I have access to a GPU so any kind of solution is welcome, even if it's based on deep learning.




I tried @mcdowella 's answer and it worked surprisingly well. I ran it over the higher-dimensional version of these points ( which were generated through T-SNE ) by using the HDBSCAN Robust Single Linkage implementation and it approximated many lines without any parameter tuning.



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    I dont think this is the right place to ask these kinds of questions. Maybe the statistics stack exchange would be more appropriate?
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I dont think this is the right place to ask these kinds of questions. Maybe the statistics stack exchange would be more appropriate?
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I would try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-linkage_clustering - it has a tendency to follow lines that is sometimes even a disadvantage for people who want nice compact rounded clusters and get straggling spaghetti (nice picture on P7 of https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/350/lectures/08/lecture-08.pdf).






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    I would try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-linkage_clustering - it has a tendency to follow lines that is sometimes even a disadvantage for people who want nice compact rounded clusters and get straggling spaghetti (nice picture on P7 of https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/350/lectures/08/lecture-08.pdf).






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      I would try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-linkage_clustering - it has a tendency to follow lines that is sometimes even a disadvantage for people who want nice compact rounded clusters and get straggling spaghetti (nice picture on P7 of https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/350/lectures/08/lecture-08.pdf).






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        I would try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-linkage_clustering - it has a tendency to follow lines that is sometimes even a disadvantage for people who want nice compact rounded clusters and get straggling spaghetti (nice picture on P7 of https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/350/lectures/08/lecture-08.pdf).






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        I would try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-linkage_clustering - it has a tendency to follow lines that is sometimes even a disadvantage for people who want nice compact rounded clusters and get straggling spaghetti (nice picture on P7 of https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/350/lectures/08/lecture-08.pdf).







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