Hierarchical Clustering Techniques in Data Mining: a Comparative Study

Clustering is an important data mining technique which has gained a tremendous importance in recent times due to its inherent nature of capturing the hidden structure of the data. In Clustering, different objects that have some similarity based on their characteristics are brought together into a group. Hierarchical Clustering Analysis is one of the clustering techniques which play a significant role in many applications in real world such as text mining, data analysis, market research, pattern recognition, and many more. This paper focuses on bringing out the comparison among different hierarchical clustering techniques. Keywords—Data Ming, Data Mining Techniques, Clustering, Hierarchical Methods.