Welcome to this 2 hour long project-based course on Principal Component Analysis with NumPy and Python. In this project, you will do all the machine learning without using any of the popular machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn and statsmodels. The aim of this project and is to implement all the machinery of the various learning algorithms yourself, so you have a deeper understanding of the fundamentals. By the time you complete this project, you will be able to implement and apply PCA from scratch using NumPy in Python, conduct basic exploratory data analysis, and create simple data visualizations with Seaborn and Matplotlib. The prerequisites for this project are prior programming experience in Python and a basic understanding of machine learning theory.
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Principal Component Analysis with NumPy
Instructor: Snehan Kekre
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What you'll learn
Implement Principal Component Analysis (PCA) from scratch with NumPy and Python
Conduct basic exploratory data analysis (EDA)
Create simple data visualizations with Seaborn and Matplotlib
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In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Introduction and Overview
Load the Data and Libraries
Visualize the Data
Data Standardization
Compute the Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
Selecting Principal Components Using the Explained Variance
Project Data Onto a Lower-Dimensional Linear Subspace
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Prior programming experience in Python and machine learning theory is recommended.
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