Practice Why Reduce Dimensions? - 6.2.1 | 6. Unsupervised Learning – Clustering & Dimensionality Reduction | Data Science Advance
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is meant by the curse of dimensionality?

💡 Hint: Think about how data points might spread out.

Question 2

Easy

How does reducing dimensions improve computational cost?

💡 Hint: Consider how many features algorithms need to work with.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is the curse of dimensionality?

  • Challenges caused by too few features
  • Problems arising when data becomes sparse in high dimensions
  • An increase in noise with more data features

💡 Hint: Think about the effect of having too many features.

Question 2

True or False: Dimensionality reduction can lead to overfitting.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Consider how reducing features impacts model training.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Consider a high-dimensional dataset with 100 features. Discuss the potential impact this may have on a machine learning model and how dimensionality reduction could help.

💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between dimensions and data density.

Question 2

In a practical application, how would you decide which features to retain or discard when reducing dimensions?

💡 Hint: What metrics indicate feature importance?

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