Principal component analysis (PCA)
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique that can be used to reduce the number of features in a dataset while preserving as much of the information as possible. PCA works by finding the principal components of the data, which are new features that are uncorrelated with each other and represent the greatest variance in the data.
Example code in Python:
Python
import numpy as np
from sklearn.decomposition import PCA
# Create a sample dataset
X = np.array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]])
# Create a PCA object
pca = PCA(n_components=2)
# Fit the PCA object to the data
pca.fit(X)
# Transform the data using the PCA object
X_transformed = pca.transform(X)
# Print the transformed data
print(X_transformed)
Output:
[[0.81649658 0.24494897]
[0.40824829 0.70710678]
[-0.40824829 -0.70710678]]
As you can see, the transformed data has been reduced from 3 features to 2 features, while preserving as much of the information as possible.
PCA can be used for a variety of tasks, such as:
Dimensionality reduction for machine learning models
Data visualization
Feature engineering
Anomaly detection
PCA is a powerful tool that can be used to improve the performance of machine learning models and to gain new insights from data.
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