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During the Thanksgiving season, many stores/restaurants like Boston Market and Cracker Barrel offer special Thanksgiving dinners to customers. A Thanksgiving-themed question that I could answer using clustering would be, “Group similar restaurants/stores that sell Thanksgiving dinner-themed family meals.” The data I would gather for this would be # of Thanksgiving-related dishes offered and # of non-Thanksgiving-specific dishes offered in a meal. Upon performing cluster analysis, restaurants would be grouped according to how many Thanksgiving dishes (stuffing, turkey, etc.) and how many non-thanksgiving-related dishes, like Boston Market’s dip and crackers, they had.

A Thanksgiving question involving clustering would be which regions in America like which kinds of side dishes? The kind of data I would gather would be region (South, Northeast, Midwest etc) and top 3 kinds of side dishes eaten on Thanksgiving. Then data would be grouped to see if people from the same region like the same kinds of food.