数据挖掘是信息产业界近年来非常热门的研究方向，聚类分析是数据挖掘中的核心技术。本文对数据挖掘领域的聚类分析方法及代表算法进行分析，并从多个方面对这些算法性能进行比较，同时还对聚类分析在数据挖掘中的几个应用进行了阐述。-Data Mining is the IT industry is very popular in recent years the direction of the research, cluster analysis is data mining in the core technology. In this paper, the field of data mining methods and the representative of cluster analysis algorithm analysis, and from several aspects of these algorithms to compare the performance, but also on the cluster analysis of data mining in several applications are described.