Bio and Geo Informatics: k-means clustering in scipy
k-means clustering in scipy
it's fairly simple to do clustering of points with similar z-values in scipy:
import numpy
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
from scipy.cluster.vq import *
import pylab
pylab.close()
# generate some random xy points and
# give them some striation so there will be "real" groups.
xy = numpy.random.rand(30,2)
xy[3:8,1] -= .9
xy[22:28,1] += .9
# make some z vlues
z = numpy.sin(xy[:,1]-0.2*xy[:,1])
# whiten them
z = whiten(z)
# let scipy do its magic (k==3 groups)
res, idx = kmeans2(numpy.array(zip(xy[:,0],xy[:,1],z)),3)
# convert groups to rbg 3-tuples.
colors = ([([0,0,0],[1,0,0],[0,0,1])[i] for i in idx])
# show sizes and colors. each color belongs in diff cluster.
pylab.scatter(xy[:,0],xy[:,1],s=20*z+9, c=colors)
pylab.savefig('/var/www/tmp/clust.png')
