Exploring a Dataset: Wholesale Customers Dataset

As part of the process of learning the behavior and applications of clustering algorithms, the following sections of this chapter will focus on solving a real-life data problem using the Wholesale Customers dataset, which is available at the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository.

Note

The Wholesale Customers dataset is available for download, and will be used in this topic's activity. The process of downloading it will be explained during the activity. However, students should access the following link to understand the steps that are given: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Wholesale+customers.

Datasets in repositories may contain raw, partially preprocessed, or preprocessed data. To use any of these datasets, ensure that you read the specifications of the data available to understand the process that needs to be followed to model the data effectively.

Understanding the Dataset

The suggested steps to be followed to set the book of action...