CLUTO is a software package for clustering low- and high-dimensional datasets and for analyzing the characteristics of the various clusters. CLUTO is well-suited for clustering data sets arising in many diverse application areas including information retrieval, customer purchasing transactions, web, GIS, science, and biology.
CLUTO’s distribution consists of both stand-alone programs and a library via which an application program can access directly the various clustering and analysis algorithms implemented in CLUTO.
Features
The CLUTO data clustering package is currently distributed as a single file that contains binary distributions for Linux, OSX, and MS Windows platforms.
The first step in getting and using CLUTO is to download the binary distribution file. CLUTO’s distribution is available as either a Unix gziped tar file or as a Windows zip file.
Latest experimental release (2.1.2a):
Latest stable release (2.1.1):
Older versions of CLUTO can be found here.
On Unix systems, after downloading CLUTO you need to uncompress and untar it. This is achieved by executing the following command:
gunzip cluto-xxx.tar.gz tar -xvf cluto-xxx.tarOf course, ‘xxx’ is CLUTO’s release number that you have downloaded. On Windows systems, you need to have a zip/unzip program (e.g., winzip) in order to unzip the files. In general, you just need to double click on “cluto-xxx.zip” and the file will be unzipped automatically.
At this point you should have a directory named cluto-xxx. This directory contains CLUTO’s library, stand-alone clustering programs, and some test datasets.
Instructions describing how to use CLUTO can be found at cluto-xxx/manual.pdf. You can get a PDF copy from here.
A simple perl script called doc2mat that convertes a set of documents into the vector-space format used by CLUTO is provided by downloading the following tar file: doc2mat-1.0.tar.gz.
You can read its online documentation from here.
The various datasets used in evaluating the performance of CLUTO’s clustering algorithms are available by downloading datasets.tar.gz.
Finally, the various datasets used in evaluating the Chameleon clustering algorithm are available by downloading chameleon-data.tar.gz.
Copyright & License Notice
CLUTO is copyrighted by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. It can be freely used for educational and research purposes by non-profit institutions and US government agencies only. Other organizations are allowed to use CLUTO only for evaluation purposes, and any further uses will require prior approval. The software may not be sold or redistributed without prior approval. One may make copies of the software for their use provided that the copies, are not sold or distributed, are used under the same terms and conditions.
As unestablished research software, this code is provided on an “as is’’ basis without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The downloading, or executing any part of this software constitutes an implicit agreement to these terms. These terms and conditions are subject to change at any time without prior notice.
gCLUTO is a cross-platform graphical application for clustering low- and high-dimensional datasets and for analyzing the characteristics of the various clusters. gCLUTO is build on-top of the CLUTO clustering library.
gCLUTO provides tools for visualizing the resulting clustering solutions using tree, matrix, and an OpenGL-based mountain visualization.
The gCLUTO data clustering package is distributed as a single file that contains binary distributions for Linux, and MS Windows platforms.
The first step in setting up gCLUTO is to download the binary distribution file. gCLUTO’s distribution is available as either a Unix gziped tar file or as a Windows zip file.
Available files for download:
Older versions of gCLUTO can be found here.
On Unix systems, after downloading gCLUTO you need to uncompress and untar it. This is achieved by executing the following command:
gunzip gcluto-1.0.tar.gz tar -xvf gcluto-1.0.tarOn Windows systems, you need to have a zip/unzip program (e.g., winzip) in order to unzip the files. In general, you just need to double click on “gcluto_1_0.zip” and the file will be unzipped automatically.
At this point you should have a directory named gcluto-1.0. This directory contains gCLUTO’s programs and some test datasets.
Instructions describing how to use gCLUTO can be found at gcluto-1.0/doc/index.html. You can view a local copy of this documentation by clicking here.