Europe clustering

The idea was to try some clustering machine learning algorithms on european stat, just for fun and self-educational purposes. Here is the list of countries:

##  [1] "Belgium"        "Bulgaria"       "Czechia"        "Denmark"       
##  [5] "Germany"        "Estonia"        "Ireland"        "Greece"        
##  [9] "Spain"          "France"         "Croatia"        "Italy"         
## [13] "Cyprus"         "Latvia"         "Lithuania"      "Luxembourg"    
## [17] "Hungary"        "Malta"          "Netherlands"    "Austria"       
## [21] "Poland"         "Portugal"       "Romania"        "Slovenia"      
## [25] "Slovakia"       "Finland"        "Sweden"         "United Kingdom"
## [29] "Iceland"        "Norway"         "Switzerland"    "Serbia"        
## [33] "Turkey"

Input

So what I did, I took a random statistic from eurostat

and run hierarchical clustering. After that I’ve selected 8 classes and here you can see it as a tree

or on the map color-coded by cluster ID.

to be continued…