Comprehensive guide for Principal Component Analysis

The theoretical and practical part of Principal Component Analysis with python implementation

Ibrahim Kovan
Towards Data Science
8 min readSep 2, 2021

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
3. Theory
3.1. Calculating PCA
3.1.1. Rescaling (Standardization)
3.1.2. Covariance Matrix
3.1.3. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
3.1.4. Sorting in Descent Order
3.2. Is PCA one of the feature extraction&feature selection methods?
4. Implementation
4.1. Traditional Machine Learning Approaches
4.2. Deep Learning

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