Talk:Jenks natural breaks optimization

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request. For future reference this type of request is completely uncontroversial and can be requested at the uncontroversial moves subsection of WP:RM (and would have been moved much faster if requested there).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:24, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

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User:Nbowers/Jenks Natural Breaks Optimiaztion → Jenks Natural Breaks Optimization — No previous page existed. This page was created in userspace to be edited and previewed. It is now ready to be made live. --Nbowers (talk) 20:54, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Hello, I need a pseudocode for Jenks Natural Breaks Optimiaztion, can you help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.56.138.2 (talk) 22:04, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

A question to the author/s of this page: does the Jenks natural breaks method require setting the number of classes in advance, as it is in K-means clustering, or can the method - or a variant thereof - be used to determine the number of classes? 166.170.41.135 (talk) 15:17, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Algorithm description is too vague

The description of the algorithm provided in the description of method section is not clear about how the unit to move between classes at each step is chosen. It would seem that the original resource describing the algorithm has not been digitized and is also not cited here, so it would be good if somebody could obtain access to that article and improve the section's description of the algorithm. Goose121 (talk) 02:19, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

I found this reference with an explicit equation form representation of the Jenks optimization and how it does differ from K-means (contrary to the equivalence that is implied in the article). The reference is quite clear and seems credible. I am perplexed, however, that the author refers to the minimization of Eucledian distance instead of the squared Eucledian distance (see my post here: https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/558826/345570). Until this gets cleared up, I hesitate to modify the article without confirmation. Guillaume Majeau-Bettez (talk) 08:28, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Moving content between this page, and George F. Jenks bibliography page

I just created a page for George F. Jenks, and noted that this page has a bit of background on him in the "history" section. I believe that some content from that section could be moved to the bibliography page, and that the bibliography page could be improved by more reference to the algorithm. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 21:23, 27 July 2023 (UTC)