In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Why reduce dimension?
- Performing feature selection with FSelector
- Performing dimension reduction with PCA
- Determining the number of principal components using a scree test
- Determining the number of principal components using the Kaiser method
- Visualizing multivariate data using biplot
- Performing dimension reduction with MDS
- Reducing dimensions with SVD
- Compressing images with SVD
- Performing nonlinear dimension reduction with ISOMAP
- Performing nonlinear dimension deduction with Local Linear Embedding