Spectral-Clustering---Grouping-News-Stories

Case Study 1.3.2: Spectral Clustering - Grouping News Stories Instructor: Stefanie Jegelka Activity Type: Optional Case Study Description: Auto-clustering News stories. Why this Case Study? Build your own clustering for news stories on the web similar to how you see Google News organize news stories by auto-generated topics/groupings! Self-Help Documentation: In this document, we walk through some helpful tips to get you started with building your own application for automating the clustering of news stories using Spectral Clustering. In this tutorial, we provide examples and some pseudo-code for the following programming environment: Python. Download Self-Help Documentation Time Required: The time required to do this activity varies depending on your experience in the required programming background. We suggest planning somewhere between 1 & 3 hours. Remember, this is an optional activity for participants looking for hands-on experience. Have questions? Feel free to discuss the case study with other participants in the Discussion Forum under Module 2 - Case Studies Section.