방법 비교

	K-means 군집화	계층적 군집화	t-SNE
분야	머신러닝	머신러닝	머신러닝
계열	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
기원 연도	1967 (formalized 1982)	1963	2008
창시자	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Ward, J. H.	van der Maaten, L. & Hinton, G.
유형	Partitional clustering	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Nonlinear dimensionality reduction (manifold visualization)
원전	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	van der Maaten, L. & Hinton, G. (2008). Visualizing Data using t-SNE. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9(86), 2579–2605.
별칭	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	t-SNE (Boyut İndirgeme / Görselleştirme), t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding, tsne
관련	4	4	3
요약	K-means is a classic unsupervised partitional clustering algorithm that divides a dataset into K non-overlapping groups by iteratively assigning each observation to its nearest centroid and updating centroids as the mean of their assigned points. It is one of the most widely used exploratory tools in machine learning and data analysis.	Hierarchical clustering is an unsupervised method that groups observations into nested clusters and draws the result as a dendrogram, so the number of clusters need not be fixed in advance. Its agglomerative form rests on the objective-function grouping criterion introduced by Joe Ward in 1963.	t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding) is a nonlinear dimensionality-reduction method introduced by Laurens van der Maaten and Geoffrey Hinton in 2008 that maps high-dimensional data into a 2D or 3D space for visualization. It preserves probabilistic local similarities, so points that are neighbours in the original space stay close together, revealing cluster structure and local neighbourhoods.