There are two definitions in data mining "Supervised" and "Unsupervised". When someone tells the computer, algorithm, code, ... that this thing is like an apple and that thing is like an orange, this is supervised learning and using supervised learning (like tags for each sample in a data set) for classifying the data, you'll get classification. But on the other hand if you let the computer find out what is what and differentiate between features of the given data set, in fact learning unsupervised, for classifying the data set this would be called clustering. In this case data that are fed to the algorithm don't have tags and the algorithm should find out different classes.

聚类是一种对对象进行分组的方法，通过这种方式，具有相似特征的对象聚集在一起，而具有不同特征的对象分开。它是机器学习和数据挖掘中常用的统计数据分析技术。

分类是在训练数据集的基础上识别、区分和理解对象的分类过程。分类是一种有监督的学习技术，其中训练集和正确定义的观察是可用的。

摘自《驯象人在行动》一书，我认为它很好地解释了两者的区别:

分类算法与聚类算法(如k-means算法)相关，但仍有很大不同。 分类算法是监督学习的一种形式，与无监督学习相反，无监督学习发生在聚类算法中。 监督学习算法是一种给出包含目标变量期望值的例子。无监督算法不会得到想要的答案，而是必须自己找到一些合理的答案。

如果你试图将大量的文件归档到你的书架上(根据日期或文件的其他规格)，你是在分类。

如果要从这组工作表创建集群，则意味着工作表之间有一些类似的东西。

分类——数据集可以有不同的组/类。红色，绿色和黑色。分类将试图找到将它们划分为不同类别的规则。

聚类——如果一个数据集没有任何类，而你想把它们放在某个类/分组中，你就可以进行聚类。上面紫色的圆圈。

如果分类规则不好，你就会在测试中出现错误分类，或者你的规则不够正确。 如果聚类不好，你会有很多异常值。不能落在任何集群中的数据点。

There are two definitions in data mining "Supervised" and "Unsupervised". When someone tells the computer, algorithm, code, ... that this thing is like an apple and that thing is like an orange, this is supervised learning and using supervised learning (like tags for each sample in a data set) for classifying the data, you'll get classification. But on the other hand if you let the computer find out what is what and differentiate between features of the given data set, in fact learning unsupervised, for classifying the data set this would be called clustering. In this case data that are fed to the algorithm don't have tags and the algorithm should find out different classes.