IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook - Second Edition

Reducing the dimensionality of a dataset with a principal component analysis

In the previous recipes, we presented supervised learning methods; our data points came with discrete or continuous labels, and the algorithms were able to learn the mapping from the points to the labels.

Starting with this recipe, we will present unsupervised learning methods. These methods might be helpful prior to running a supervised learning algorithm. They can give a first insight into the data.

Let's assume that our data consists of points without any labels. The goal is to discover some form of hidden structure in this set of points. Frequently, data points have ...