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almete.NearestNeighborChain

almete.NearestNeighborChain(values, distanceBetween)

Builds a hierarchy of clusters.

argument	description
values	An array or an object of values to build the hierarchy of clusters from.
distanceBetween	A function to calculate the distance between two values. Value pairs with the lowest distance build a cluster.

Returns clusters as nested arrays. The leaves are either the indexes or the keys of the values, depending on their collection's type.

dependencies

• almete.BronKerbosch

setup

npm

npm install almete.nearestneighborchain

ES module

import NearestNeighborChain from 'almete.nearestneighborchain';

Node

const NearestNeighborChain = require('almete.nearestneighborchain');

browser

<script src="https://unpkg.com/almete.bronkerbosch"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/almete.nearestneighborchain"></script>

The function NearestNeighborChain will be available under the namespace almete.

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Include polyfills to support older browsers.

<script src="https://cdn.polyfill.io/v2/polyfill.min.js"></script>

usage

let object = {a: 4, b: 90, c: 12, d: 61, e: 29};
let clusters = almete.NearestNeighborChain(object, (a, b) => Math.abs(a - b));
// => [['e', ['a', 'c']], ['b', 'd']]

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Overlapping clusters are merged together.

let intersection = function(a, b) {
  a = new Set(a), b = new Set(b);
  return [...a].filter(v => b.has(v));
};

let array = ['ac', 'ab', 'baab', 'aba', 'bc'];
let clusters = almete.NearestNeighborChain(array, (a, b) => -intersection(a, b).length);
// => [0, 4, [1, 2, 3]]

see also

• almete.KMeans