Exploring mtcars via k-means clustering

Coursera Data Products--Final Assigment

Victor Bernal
Mon Sep 30 17:10:37 2019

The mtcars data comes from the 1974 Motor Trend US magazine. It presents 32 vehicles, with some design/ and performance features. We want to explore how these features separate automobile in classes!

head(mtcars[,c(1:3)])
                   mpg cyl disp
Mazda RX4         21.0   6  160
Mazda RX4 Wag     21.0   6  160
Datsun 710        22.8   4  108
Hornet 4 Drive    21.4   6  258
Hornet Sportabout 18.7   8  360
Valiant           18.1   6  225
clusters<-kmeans(mtcars[, c(1,2)], 3)
        plot(mtcars[, c(1)],mtcars[, c(2)],
             col = clusters$cluster,
             pch = 20, cex = 3*(scale(mtcars[,5])+2),
             xlab=colnames(mtcars)[1], ylab=colnames(mtcars)[2])
        points(clusters$centers, pch = 1, cex = 4, lwd = 4)

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