[MAHOUT-1976] Add Canopy Clustering Algorithm

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.1
• Assignee: Trevor Grant
• Reporter: Trevor Grant
• Created: 03/May/17 23:23
• Updated: 31/Jan/24 22:11
• Resolved: 21/May/17 03:49

Description

Primarily, we need to lay out the clustering section of the Algorihtms Framework.

The Canopy Clustering Algorithm is very simple and yet very useful as a preprocessing step for more advanced clustering algorithms such as KMeans and Hierarchical Clustering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_clustering_algorithm

The majority of the "work" on this PR will be creating the framework.

It is also one of the Legacy MR algorithms that would be nice to port.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #314