def read(*parts):
    """
    Build an absolute path from *parts* and and return the contents of the
    resulting file.  Assume UTF-8 encoding.
    """
    with codecs.open(os.path.join(HERE, *parts), "rb", "utf-8") as f:
        return f.read()
def __init__(self, data, amount_clusters, means=None, variances=None, observer=None, tolerance=0.00001, iterations=100):
        """!
        @brief Initializes Expectation-Maximization algorithm for cluster analysis.