Logical analysis of built-in DBSCAN Functions in Popular Data Science Programming Languages

DBSCAN algorithm is a location-based clustering approach; it is used to find relationships and patterns in geographical data. Because of its widespread application, several data science-based programming languages include the DBSCAN method as a built-in function. Researchers and data scientists h...

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Main Authors: Amiruzzaman, Md, Rahman, Rashik, Islam, Md. Rajibul, Mohd Nor, Rizal
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Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Research and Development Wing, MIST 2023
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Acceso en liña:http://dspace.mist.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/740
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Summary:DBSCAN algorithm is a location-based clustering approach; it is used to find relationships and patterns in geographical data. Because of its widespread application, several data science-based programming languages include the DBSCAN method as a built-in function. Researchers and data scientists have been clustering and analyzing their study data using the built-in DBSCAN functions. All implementations of the DBSCAN functions require user input for radius distance (i.e., eps) and a minimum number of samples for a cluster (i.e., min_sample). As a result, the result of all built-in DBSCAN functions is believed to be the same. However, the DBSCAN Python built-in function yields different results than the other programming languages those are analyzed in this study. We propose a scientific way to assess the results of DBSCAN built-in function, as well as output inconsistencies. This study reveals various differences and advises caution when working with built-in functionality.