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Time Series Clustering

Time Series Clustering

Clusters multiple time series data into groups.

Input Data

Input data should be a time series data with category. Each row should represent one observation with date/time. It may have multiple rows for a date/time, in which case the rows are internally aggregated into one row for the date/time. It should have the following columns.
  • Group - A categorical (character or factor) column. The categories specified here are clustered into groups.
  • Date/Time - A Date or POSIXct column to indicate when the observations took place.
  • Value (Optional) - A column that stores observed values. Values for multiple rows for one date/time for a category are internally aggregated into one value by the specified aggregation function to form a time series for the category to be clustered. If not specified, the number of rows for each date/time is used as the time series to cluster.
  • Other Columns to Keep (Optional) - Other columns for values to keep in the output data. Values for multiple rows for one date/time for a category are internally aggregated into one value by the specified aggregation function, to be put together in the output.

Properties

  • Clustering
    • Number of Clusters - The number of clusters to group the time series data into.
    • Cluster Center Method - Method to calculate cluster center time series (centroid) for each iteration.
      • Mean
      • Median
      • Shape Averaging
      • DTW Barycenter Averaging
      • Soft DTW Centroids
      • Partition around Medoids
    • Distance Method - Method to calculate distance between the cluster center time series (centroid) and each time series for each iteration.
      • DTW with L2 Norm
      • DTW Basic
      • DTW Guided by Lemire's Lower Bound - 10% of the length of the data is set for the window size.
      • Keogh's Lower Bound for DTW - 10% of the length of the data is set for the window size.
      • Lemire's Lower Bound for DTW - 10% of the length of the data is set for the window size.
      • Shape-Based Distance
      • Global Alignment Kernels
      • Soft-DTW
    • Random Seed - Random seed set before the clustering, so that the results are constant when the same calculations are repeated.
  • Fill NA
    • NA Fill Type - How to fill NAs that appear between the first and last non-NA value in a time series.
      • Fill with Previous Non-NA Value
      • Fill with 0
      • Linear Interpolation
      • Spline Interpolation
    • NA Fill Type - Beginning - How to fill NAs that appear before the first non-NA value in a time series.
      • Fill with 0
      • Fill with First Non-NA Value
    • NA Fill Type - Ending - How to fill NAs that appear after the last non-NA value in a time series.
      • Fill with 0
      • Fill with Last Non-NA Value
  • Remove Groups with NAs
    • When NA Ratio Is Greater Than - If the time series data for a category has more NAs than this ratio, the category is removed from the data before the clustering is performed.
  • Normalization
    • Normalize Value - Whether to normalize the aggregated values or not.

R Package

Time Series Clustering Step uses the dtwclust R Package under the hood.

Exploratory R Package

For details about dtwclust usage in Exploratory R Package, please refer to the github repository