Clustering

Clustering - Selection of names of consumers on the basis of similar geographic, demographic, or psychographic characteristics. Clustering ranges from broad-brush selections by zip code, to very finite, such as members of boards of directors and their next door neighbors. A number of proprietary computer programs seek to break the 100,000,000 U.S. households into 40 or 45 attractively named clusters. Since data is now available for upwards of 40 attributes for almost any single given household, and modeling can identify useful profile collations of such attributes, group clustering tends by contrast to be "too course for comfort."

[Category=Database Marketing ]

Source: Postcom, 19 February 2010 10:37:13, http://postcom.org/public/admail_image/glossary.htm

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Clustering - Clustering is a process of partitioning a set of data into subsets or clusters such that a data element belonging to a cluster is more similar to data elements belonging to the same cluster than the data elements belonging to other clusters.

[Category=Information Management ]

Source: Information-Management.com, 07 June 2010 09:54:35, http://www.information-management.com/glossary/c.html

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Clustering - Clustering is a process of partitioning a set of data into subsets or clusters such that a data element belonging to a cluster is more similar to data elements belonging to the same cluster than the data elements belonging to other clusters.

[Category=Data Management ]

Source: DataMentors, 15 August 2010 10:19:46, http://www.datamentors.com/News-and-Resources/Glossary.html

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clustering - [ESRI software] A part of the topology validation process in which vertices that fall within a specified distance (cluster tolerance) of each other are snapped together. 

[Category=Geospatial ]

Source: esri, 21 February 2012 09:16:01, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation