Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for Machine Learning

Learn how to use PCA to reduce the dimensionality of your dataset

Wei-Meng Lee
Towards Data Science
14 min readJan 31, 2022

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Very often in machine learning, you have high dimensionality datasets that have a large number of features. High dimensionality datasets pose a number of problems — the most common being overfitting, which reduces the ability to generalize beyond what…

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