Enhancing K-Means Clustering Algorithm With Improved Initial Center

Cluster analysis is one of the primary data analysis methods and k-means is one of the most well known popular clustering algorithms. The k-means algorithm is one of the frequently used clustering method in data mining, due to its performance in clustering massive data sets. The final clustering result of the k-means clustering algorithm greatly depends upon the correctness of the initial centroids, which are selected randomly. The original k-means algorithm converges to local minimum, not the global optimum. Many improvements were already proposed to improve the performance of the k-means, but most of these require additional inputs like threshold values for the number of data points in a set.