An Algorithm of Data Classification Based on PCA and K-Means++

Principal component analysis (PCA) and K-means++ algorithm are used to classify and analyze eight main variables of the average annual consumption expenditure of urban households in 31 Provinces and cities in China in a given year, so as to better build the reasonable consumption level of each area. In this paper, a data classification method based on PCA and improved K-means++ is proposed. In this method, PCA was used to extract eight variable characteristics of consumer expenditure, and K-means++ algorithm was used to classify the data. The experimental results show that this method reduces the dependence of the characteristic dimension of variable data and the k-means++ algorithm on the initial classification center of gravity, and improves the accuracy and stability of data classification results.