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Which K prоduces the best cоhesiоn within а cluster AND sepаrаtion between clusters?
The fоllоwing questiоns аre bаsed on the Turkish E-commerce retаil data that we have already used in class. We used K-Means clustering to see whether the 5,000 orders in the e-commerce dataset fall into natural groups. We used seven numeric inputs (Unit price and quantity were left out because total amount already reflects them): customer age, discount amount, total order amount, session duration, pages viewed, delivery time, customer rating. Categorical variables, such as product category, city and payment method, and the yes/no returning-customer flag, were not used to form the clusters. They were only used afterward to describe the groups. Before clustering, all seven variables were standardized, which converts each to a z-score with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. The model was run separately with K = 2, 3 and 5 clusters. Each run started from 50 random starting points, and we kept the most stable solution. For each solution we report the number of orders in each cluster, each cluster’s average on every variable, and the silhouette score, which measures how well separated the clusters are. Number of Clusters( K) inertia (within cluster sum of squares) silhouette 2 30767.7 0.486 3 27247.967 0.161 4 24664.69 0.149 5 22539.371 0.15 6 20770.867 0.157 7 19035.324 0.154 8 17677.817 0.153