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Open Source Textbook for DSCI100: Introduction to Data Science in R
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Don't need to center in clustering recipe #511

Closed trevorcampbell closed 1 year ago

trevorcampbell commented 1 year ago

Full standardization isn't required. We can still do it, but should just explain a bit more

(once you scale you generally most interpretability anyway, so centering too doesn't make it any worse)

trevorcampbell commented 1 year ago

On second thought, I don't think this is worth fussing over. Closing