Question - What is the difference between agglomerative and divisive hierarchical clustering?
Answer -
The agglomerative hierarchical constraining method allows clusters to be read from bottom to top so that the program always reads from the sub-component first and then moves to the parent in an upward direction. In contrast, divisive hierarchical clustering uses a top to bottom approach in which the parent is visited first and then the child. The agglomerative hierarchical method consists of objects in which each object creates its clusters. These clusters are grouped to form a larger cluster. It is also the process of continuous merging until all the single clusters are merged into a complete big cluster that will consist of the objects of the chart clusters; however, in divisive clustering, the parent cluster is divided into smaller clusters. It keeps on dividing until each cluster has a singular object to represent.