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Plot elbow
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visualize the elbow method to find the optimal number of cluster for a given data. 

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    # Author: L.Kouadio 
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    from watex.datasets import load_hlogs 
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    res_gamma = load_hlogs ().frame[['resistivity', 'gamma_gamma']]  
    plot_elbow(res_gamma, n_clusters=11)


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