How to get flat clustering corresponding to color clusters in the dendrogram created by scipy

Question

Using the code posted here, I created a nice hierarchical clustering:

Let\'s say t

Answer 1

I wrote some code to decondense the linkage matrix. It returns a dictionary containing the indexes of labels that are grouped by each agglomeration step. I've only tried it out on the results of the complete linkage clusters. The keys of the dict start at len(labels)+1 because initially, each label is treated as its own cluster. This may answer your question.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from scipy.cluster.hierarchy import linkage

np.random.seed(123)
labels = ['ID_0','ID_1','ID_2','ID_3','ID_4']

X = np.corrcoef(np.random.random_sample([5,3])*10)
row_clusters = linkage(x_corr, method='complete')    

def extract_levels(row_clusters, labels):
    clusters = {}
    for row in xrange(row_clusters.shape[0]):
        cluster_n = row + len(labels)
        # which clusters / labels are present in this row
        glob1, glob2 = row_clusters[row, 0], row_clusters[row, 1]

        # if this is a cluster, pull the cluster
        this_clust = []
        for glob in [glob1, glob2]:
            if glob > (len(labels)-1):
                this_clust += clusters[glob]
            # if it isn't, add the label to this cluster
            else:
                this_clust.append(glob)

        clusters[cluster_n] = this_clust
    return clusters

Returns:

{5: [0.0, 2.0],
 6: [3.0, 4.0],
 7: [1.0, 0.0, 2.0],
 8: [3.0, 4.0, 1.0, 0.0, 2.0]}