Use whichever platform you prefer to work on – we will give references and hints for R and for Python.

Do one of the following tasks:

Task

Exercise 14.2 on page 579.

Task

Implement k-means and vector quantization. Produce vector quantization compressions of this picture at two levels, one with 200 code vectors, one with 6 code vectors.

Task

Download the MNIST dataset training set. Cluster the images, using within-cluster sum of squares to decide on the number of clusters.