# Ways of finding the ideal number of clusters in a corpus

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> [@yogi](#):
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> Cheers, this sounds like a good way to explore, I wouldn’t have thought of that.

Let me know how that works. Sadly, computing the mean of a cluster its a lot more awkward than it seems. I’m sure this is not the optimal approach, but I remember struggling with this over in this thread, [writing my process here](https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/class-interpolation-distance-to-classes/1903/10).

> [@yogi](#):
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> I watched most of our videos while learning about Flucoma, great source of inspiration. Also I’m using Pure Data not Max,on linux, each time I want to learn about use with percussive material I look into your sp-tools for pd! Very instructive, I wish you implemented all sp/dk tools in Pd, I have a tiny laptop with Windows on it so I can check Max patches, on a tiny screen though.

I plan on adapting more, I just struggle when it comes to some of the sound generating things (e.g. polyphonic sample playback) in pd.

For `dk.corpusclustermatch` it’s fairly straightforward. The only fussy bits of the patch is the sorting of the clusters by different criteria. Independent of that, it’s just vanilla clustering from FluComa stuff, then selecting a random item from each cluster.

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