[Numpy-discussion] MemoryError : with scipy.spatial.distance

Abhishek Pratap apratap at lbl.gov
Thu Apr 5 11:06:45 EDT 2012


Hi Gael

The MemoryError exception I am getting is from using scikit's DBSCAN
implementation. I can check mini-batch implementation of Kmeans.

Best,
-Abhi

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 04:41:51PM -0700, Abhishek Pratap wrote:
>> Thanks Chris. So I guess the question becomes how can I efficiently
>> cluster 1 million x,y coordinates.
>
> Did you try the scikit-learn's implementation of DBSCAN:
> http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html#dbscan
> ? I am not sure that it scales, but it's worth trying.
>
> Alternatively, the best way to cluster massive datasets is to use the
> mini-batch implementation of KMeans:
> http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html#mini-batch-k-means
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Gael
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