Distance between nodes and the centroid in a kmeans cluster?

If you are using Python and sklearn.

From here: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.cluster.KMeans.html#sklearn.cluster.KMeans

you can get labels_ and cluster_centers_.

Now, you determine the distance function that takes the vector of each node and its cluster center. Filter by labels_ and calculate distances for each point inside each label.

KMeans.transform() returns an array of distances of each sample to the cluster center.

import numpy as np

from sklearn.datasets import make_blobs
from sklearn.cluster import KMeans

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.style.use('ggplot')
import seaborn as sns

# Generate some random clusters
X, y = make_blobs()
kmeans = KMeans(n_clusters=3).fit(X)

# plot the cluster centers and samples 
sns.scatterplot(kmeans.cluster_centers_[:,0], kmeans.cluster_centers_[:,1], 
                marker='+', 
                color='black', 
                s=200);
sns.scatterplot(X[:,0], X[:,1], hue=y, 
                palette=sns.color_palette("Set1", n_colors=3));

transform X and take the sum of each row (axis=1) to identify samples furthest from the centers.

# squared distance to cluster center
X_dist = kmeans.transform(X)**2

# do something useful...
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(X_dist.sum(axis=1).round(2), columns=['sqdist'])
df['label'] = y

df.head()
    sqdist  label
0   211.12  0
1   257.58  0
2   347.08  1
3   209.69  0
4   244.54  0

A visual check -- the same plot, only this time with the furthest points to each cluster center highlighted:

# for each cluster, find the furthest point
max_indices = []
for label in np.unique(kmeans.labels_):
    X_label_indices = np.where(y==label)[0]
    max_label_idx = X_label_indices[np.argmax(X_dist[y==label].sum(axis=1))]
    max_indices.append(max_label_idx)

# replot, but highlight the furthest point
sns.scatterplot(kmeans.cluster_centers_[:,0], kmeans.cluster_centers_[:,1], 
                marker='+', 
                color='black', 
                s=200);
sns.scatterplot(X[:,0], X[:,1], hue=y, 
                palette=sns.color_palette("Set1", n_colors=3));
# highlight the furthest point in black
sns.scatterplot(X[max_indices, 0], X[max_indices, 1], color='black');