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Clustering algorithms group unlabelled data, such as in the following example:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZSFTM.png

Which clustering algorithms are similar to how humans do clustering? (e.g. Connectivity based clustering (hierarchical clustering), Centroid-based clustering, Distribution-based clustering, Density-based clustering, and so on).

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    What do you mean by "how humans cluster data"? – Christian Hummeluhr Mar 18 '15 at 09:44
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    I'll expand on @ChristianHummeluhr and ask, what kind of data? in what context? Humans use varying heuristics in different contexts and for differing kinds of data. – Krysta Apr 24 '15 at 19:01
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is on statistics and math – AliceD Apr 24 '15 at 21:43
  • Let me know if you find an answer to this. I'd be curious to know, as well. – Sydney Maples Aug 01 '15 at 22:34
  • there is a good deal of research on human clustering of data (AKA categorization). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974273/?tool=pmcentrez http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21038975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemplar_theory. Here's a paper that explicitly connects human category learning to machine learning http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18488638 – honi Jul 27 '16 at 00:55
  • To improve the question, you need a line somewhere to link it directly to cognitive sciences. – Tom Au Aug 19 '17 at 17:59

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