Principal Component Analysis

This course covers the basics of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the need for PCA for better interpretability of large datasets by applying dimesion-reduction without any information loss.

4 hours of instruction

This course covers the basics of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the need for PCA for better interpretability of large datasets by applying dimesion-reduction without any information loss.

OBJECTIVES

  1. Summarize the use-case for Principal Component Analysis
  2. Articulate the steps,concepts,and the relevant terminology for PCA

PREREQUISITES

Students must be comfortable using R to manipulate data and must know basic concept of machine learning.

SYLLABUS & TOPICS COVERED

  1. PCA
    • Summarize relevant terminology for PCA
    • Implement PCA and evaluate results

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

You will have access to an R-based Posit Cloud environment for this course. No additional download or installation is required.

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