Correlation Explained Visually

A geometrical approach to Pearson correlation helps to understand it in depth and to interpret its outcome more accurately.

Samuele Mazzanti
Towards Data Science
5 min readJun 12, 2021

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Every now and then, someone comes and says “I’ve finally found a replacement for Pearson correlation”. The truth is that — despite its shortcomings — Pearson correlation (a.k.a. r coefficient) is…

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