7. Features
Flight cost from New York to 720 cities in the US
Average cost of hotels for 3143 counties
Average daily expenses including car
Location of city [east, west, central, south, north]
City specifics like beaches, museum, national parks
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12. Cluster Validation
Table: (Cluster Validation)
Number of Clusters WSS(105) City Similarity
2 9.98 Seattle Detroit, Charlotte, South Bend
3 9.73 Seattle Boston, Phoenix, Detroit
4 9.87 Seattle Charlotte, South Bend, Minneapolis
5 9.15 Seattle Detroit, Charlotte, South Bend
7 9.43 Seattle Detroit, Charlotte, South Bend
10 9.63 Seattle Sacrameto, San Jose, Colombus
12 9.52 Seattle Sacrameto, San Jose, Colombus
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13. Cluster Initialization and Validation
Table: (Cluster Initialization and Validation)
Alg Time(s) homo compl v-meas ARI AMI silhouette
k-means 0.03 0.971 0.971 0.971 0.988 0.970 0.389
VQ 0.04 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.388
After PCA 0.00 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.388
Mean Shift 0.24 1.000 0.970 0.972 0.980 0.972 0.386
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