FAQ: K-Means++ Clustering - Introduction to K-Means++

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Is it only me, or the code for step 1 of this exercise does not show what is described in the instructions? I expected two plots (to compare K-means and K-means ++ clustering) and a printout of the resulting inertia. Instead, the outputs of the code are a single plot and the run times.

Look at the point at x=0.2 and y=1 . On the top graph you should see a purple point, but on the bottom graph a yellow point.

Isn’t the labels in two results have the opposite meanings each other? It is inconsistent with the description above.
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If I reverse the color specification on line 47, it is consistent with the description.

# colors = ['#6400e4', '#ffc740']
colors = ['#ffc740', '#6400e4']

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