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PCA Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

Can we use PCA for feature selection?

  Related To: Feature Engineering
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Q2:   

How is the first principal component axis selected in PCA?

  Related To: Dimensionality Reduction
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Q3:   

What is Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?

  Related To: Dimensionality Reduction
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Q4:   

How Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is used for Dimensionality Reduction?

  Related To: Dimension Reduction, Unsupervised Learning
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Q5:   

What is the difference between PCA and Random Projection approaches?

  Related To: Dimensionality Reduction
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Q6:   

What's the difference between PCA and t-SNE?

  Related To: Dimensionality Reduction
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Q7:   

How do you perform Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?

  Related To: Feature Engineering
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Q8:   

Would you use PCA on large datasets or there is a better alternative?

  Related To: Scikit-Learn
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Q9:   

Why is Centering and Scaling the data important before performing PCA?

  Related To: Dimensionality Reduction, Linear Algebra
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Q10:   

What are some advantages of using LLE over PCA?

  Related To: Unsupervised Learning, Dimensionality Reduction
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Q11:   

What is Sparse PCA?

  Related To: Dimensionality Reduction
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Q12:   

When would you use Manifold Learning techniques over PCA?

  Related To: Dimensionality Reduction
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Q13:   

What's the difference between Principal Component Analysis and Independent Component Analysis?

  Related To: Feature Engineering
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Q14:   

How is PCA used for Anomaly Detection?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection, Unsupervised Learning
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Q15:   

Is PCA checks what characteristics are redundant and discards them?

  Related To: Dimension Reduction
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Q16:   

What is the relationship between k-Means Clustering and PCA?

  Related To: Clustering, K-Means Clustering
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PCA Practical Challenges

Q1:   

How can you obtain the principal components and the eigenvalues from Scikit-Learn PCA?

  Related To: Scikit-Learn
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