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Cluster Analysis for optimal maps

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering

Taking the community world map as a example

  • HAC is a machine learning algorithm
  • The algorithm recursively merges the pair of clusters that minimally increases the linkage distance
  • The linkage distance is the average euclidean distance of the airport radian coordinates
  • More information about HAC on Wikipedia

Airports of the cluster center in the example

  • Stockholm Vasteras Hasslo Airport, Sweden
  • Cork Airport, Ireland
  • Sharm el-Sheikh International, Egypt
  • New Orleans Louis Armstrong International, United States

World Map with all flights

VST Cluster

Avg Distance: 1172 KM

Cork Cluster

Avg Distance: 1000 KM

Sharm El Sheikh Cluster

Avg Distance: 1797 KM

New Orleans Cluster

Avg Distance: 1497 KM