Rails - Aug 2006 - Re: acts_as_clusterable plugin allows easy clustering

Can someone explain in simple terms what clustering is and why a person 
might use this?

Thanks.

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Bill <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> writes:
> Can someone explain in simple terms what clustering is and why a person 
> might use this?

This plugin helps in clustering as explained in this wikipedia article:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_clustering 

it only works for text data. 
A scenario where it can help is say, your website collects news from different
sources, then you can cluster the news and present the cluster to users, the
user can then decide which cluster he is interested in. 

Also, it can help in organizing search results, forming hierarchies, etc. 

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