Visualize Clustering with SOM in Anatella / R Note: The data is extracted from Marketing Engineering, with the kind permission of Dr A. De Bruyn. A very complete R code for SOM can be found in the excellent post of Shane Lynn http://www.shanelynn.ie/self-organising-maps-for-customer-segmentation-using-r/ Clustering is a tricky business. while the hardest part of it lies

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Lift, ROC, AUC and Gini One good way to compare different predictive modeling platforms is to compare the models that are produced by these platform.Comparing models across platform is not an easy task. Models can be compared using various criteria’s: 1.    Simple predictive Model Quality (i.e. Height of the lift curve / AUC) 2.    Generalization

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