k-means

This project is part of the @thi.ng/umbrella monorepo.

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About

Configurable k-means & k-medians (with k-means++ initialization) for n-D vectors.

Status

ALPHA - bleeding edge / work-in-progress

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Installation

yarn add @thi.ng/k-means

// ES module
<script type="module" src="https://unpkg.com/@thi.ng/k-means?module" crossorigin></script>

// UMD
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@thi.ng/k-means/lib/index.umd.js" crossorigin></script>

Package sizes (gzipped, pre-treeshake): ESM: 930 bytes / CJS: 991 bytes / UMD: 1.07 KB

Dependencies

• @thi.ng/api
• @thi.ng/distance
• @thi.ng/random
• @thi.ng/vectors

Usage examples

Several demos in this repo's /examples directory are using this package.

A selection:

Screenshot	Description	Live demo	Source
	Color palette generation via dominant color extraction from uploaded images	Demo	Source

API

Generated API docs

Example usage:

import { kmeans, meansLatLon } from "@thi.ng/k-means";
import { HAVERSINE_LATLON } from "@thi.ng/distance";

// data from: https://simplemaps.com/data/world-cities
const items = [
    { id: "berlin", latlon: [52.5167, 13.3833] },
    { id: "boston", latlon: [42.3188, -71.0846] },
    { id: "detroit", latlon: [42.3834, -83.1024] },
    { id: "kyoto", latlon: [35.0111, 135.7669] },
    { id: "london", latlon: [51.5072, -0.1275] },
    { id: "new york", latlon: [40.6943, -73.9249] },
    { id: "osaka", latlon: [34.6936, 135.5019] },
    { id: "paris", latlon: [48.8566, 2.3522] },
    { id: "philadelphia", latlon: [40.0077, -75.1339] },
    { id: "tokyo", latlon: [35.6897, 139.6922] },
    { id: "vienna", latlon: [48.2083, 16.3731] },
];

// cluster based on lat/lon
const clusters = kmeans(
    3,
    items.map((x) => x.latlon),
    {
        // custom centroid calc for geo locations
        // https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/k-means/modules.html#meanslatlon
        strategy: meansLatLon,
        // custom distance function for geo location (default: DIST_SQ)
        dist: HAVERSINE_LATLON
    }
);

// print each cluster
for (let c of clusters) {
    console.log(c.items.map((i) => items[i].id));
}

// [ 'boston', 'detroit', 'new york', 'philadelphia' ]
// [ 'kyoto', 'osaka', 'tokyo' ]
// [ 'berlin', 'london', 'paris', 'vienna' ]

Authors

Karsten Schmidt

If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as:

@misc{thing-k-means,
  title = "@thi.ng/k-means",
  author = "Karsten Schmidt",
  note = "https://thi.ng/k-means",
  year = 2021
}

License

© 2021 Karsten Schmidt // Apache Software License 2.0