Lecture 23 – Principal Component Analysis

Presented by Raguvir Kunani

Content by Raguvir Kunani, Isaac Schmidt

A reminder – the right column of the table below contains Quick Checks. These are not required but suggested to help you check your understanding.

Video Quick Check
23.0
Introduction
23.1
Covariance Matrix
23.1
23.2
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
23.2
23.3
Singular Value Decomposition
23.3
23.4
Summarizing data with fewer dimensions
23.4
23.5
Connecting SVD to summarizing data
23.5
23.6
Principal Component Analysis
23.6
23.7
Choosing the number of principal components
23.7
23.8
Interpreting principal components
23.8
23.9
Summary
23.10
(Bonus) PCA vs. Regression