Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a linear technique that finds orthogonal directions of maximum variance for dimensionality reduction.
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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a linear technique that finds orthogonal directions of maximum variance for dimensionality reduction.
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PCA rotates the data to keep the directions where values vary most, then you can drop the least useful directions.
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