Practice Principal Component Analysis (PCA) - 6.2.2 | 6. Unsupervised Learning – Clustering & Dimensionality Reduction | Data Science Advance
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What does PCA stand for?

💡 Hint: Think about what 'P' stands for.

Question 2

Easy

What is the first step in PCA?

💡 Hint: Consider what we often do to data before analyzing.

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Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What is the purpose of PCA?

  • To increase dimensions
  • To reduce dimensions while preserving variance
  • To eliminate all data
  • To classify data into categories

💡 Hint: Remember, PCA simplifies datasets.

Question 2

True or False: PCA requires the data to be normalized before applying the technique.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Think about the first step in PCA.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

You have a high-dimensional dataset containing features from several products. Describe how you would apply PCA to simplify your analysis and what insights you hope to gain.

💡 Hint: Think about the goals when simplifying a dataset.

Question 2

Critique the use and limitation of PCA in machine learning, especially regarding its effectiveness with non-linear datasets.

💡 Hint: Consider how PCA aligns with the dataset’s inherent relationships.

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