A Survey on Data Clustering Algorithms

Clustering is a technique adapted in many real world applications. Generally clustering can be thought of as partitioning the data into group or subsets, which contain analogous objects. A lot of clustering techniques like K-Means algorithm, Fuzzy C-Means algorithm (FCM), spectral clustering algorithm and so on has been proposed earlier in literature. Recently, clustering algorithms are extensively used for mixed data types to evaluate the performance of the clustering techniques. This paper presents a survey on various clustering algorithms that are proposed earlier in literature. Moreover it provides an insight into the advantages and limitations of some of those earlier proposed clustering techniques. The comparison of various clustering techniques is provided in this paper. The future enhancement section of this paper provides a general idea for improving the existing clustering algorithms to achieve better clustering accuracy.