# DBSCAN using Hamming Distance Metric

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dbscan-using-hamming-distance-metric/29606>\
**Category:** Statistics\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [October 7, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dbscan-using-hamming-distance-metric/29606 "2019-10-07T16:49:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mohamed\_Ismail](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mohamed_ismail/32/9453_2.png) [@Mohamed\_Ismail](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mohamed_Ismail)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dbscan-using-hamming-distance-metric/29606/1 "2019-10-07T16:49:50Z")

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I would like to use Clustering.DBSCAN and specify my own distance metric.  
Specifically, I want to use Hamming distance. The current DBSCAN interfaces do not seem to provide such option? Is there a workaround for this?  
Thanks.