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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher@gmail.com> wrote:
SOM were supposed to be included in scikits.learn, weren't they ? (as scipy.cluster is in scipy only for historical reasons)
It depends. I think Corran's proposal to put a simple and fast batch SOM algorithm in scipy.cluster.vq and more general variations of the SOM algorithm in the scikit is a good approach. In general, it is OK to improve the cluster package in scipy. For instance, I think Damian's hierarchical clustering code (http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/browser/trunk/scipy/cluster/hierarchy....) is a good example of what should go into scipy.cluster. -- Jarrod Millman Computational Infrastructure for Research Labs 10 Giannini Hall, UC Berkeley phone: 510.643.4014 http://cirl.berkeley.edu/