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PCA

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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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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a linear technique that finds orthogonal directions of maximum variance for dimensionality reduction.

Plain English explanation

PCA rotates the data to keep the directions where values vary most, then you can drop the least useful directions.

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