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Python for Data Science For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Python for Data Science For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron
November 2023
Beginner
464 pages
11h 38m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 14

Reducing Dimensionality

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Discovering the magic of singular value decomposition

Bullet Understanding the difference between factors and components

Bullet Automatically retrieving and matching images and text

Bullet Building a movie recommender system

Big data is defined as an extensive collection of data that is so massive that traditional processing techniques struggle to handle it effectively. The manipulation of big data differentiates statistical problems, which are based on small samples, from data science problems. You typically use traditional statistical techniques on small problems and data science techniques on big problems.

Data may be viewed as big because it consists of many examples, and this is the first kind of big that spontaneously comes to mind. Analyzing a database of millions of customers and interacting with them all simultaneously is really challenging, but that isn’t the only possible perspective of big data. Another view of big data is data dimensionality, which refers to how many aspects of the cases an application tracks. Data with high dimensionality ...

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