Cluster Comparison View

The Cluster Comparison view consists of a grid-style layout, with features in the rows and selected clusters in the columns. This view helps you to better understand the factors that make up the clusters; it also enables you to see differences between clusters not only as compared with the overall data, but with each other.

To select clusters for display, click on the top of the cluster column in the Clusters main panel. Use either Ctrl-click or Shift-click to select or deselect more than one cluster for comparison.

Note: You can select up to five clusters for display.

Clusters are shown in the order in which they were selected, while the order of fields is determined by the Sort Features By option. When you select Within-Cluster Importance, fields are always sorted by overall importance .

The background plots show the overall distributions of each features:

• Categorical features are shown as dot plots, where the size of the dot indicates the most frequent/modal category for each cluster (by feature).
• Continuous features are displayed as boxplots, which show overall medians and the interquartile ranges.

Overlaid on these background views are boxplots for selected clusters:

• For continuous features, square point markers and horizontal lines indicate the median and interquartile range for each cluster.
• Each cluster is represented by a different color, shown at the top of the view.