I am attempting to run a cluster analysis using the HP Cluster node to identify groups of schools with similar demographic properties. When I run the analysis, I get 12 clusters (Screenshot 1).
However, when I run the segment profile node (process flow in screenshot 2), all observations get assigned to a single cluster (screenshot 3).
I cannot for the life of me understand why the 12 clusters are not being brought over into the segment profile. This only occurs after the HP Cluster run. When I attach the segment profile node to a regular cluster analysis node, it works as expected. Screenshot 4 shows the properties of the segment profile node.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Mike
Hi, can you send over the properties panel screenshot for your HP Cluster node? I tried your flow using the sample HMEQ dataset that is included with EM, and segment profile worked as expected. I also wonder if your segment sizes are too small for segment profile, because there may be a cutoff value.
Thanks
Jonathan
That should not matter for what you are doing. Can you try creating your HP Cluster with a max of 2 clusters? Lets see if your problem is data-dependent.
That's great that it's working now. It looks like it's data dependent, as I suspected. Somehow your obersvations are being scored/put into 1 cluster.
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