Recent advance in machine learning has made face recognition not a difficult problem. But in the previous, researchers have made various attempts and developed various skills to make computer capable of identifying people. One of the early attempt with moderate success is eigenface, which is based on linear algebra techniques. In this tutorial, we will […]
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Principal Component Analysis for Visualization
Principal component analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised machine learning technique. Perhaps the most popular use of principal component analysis is dimensionality reduction. Besides using PCA as a data preparation technique, we can also use it to help visualize data. A picture is worth a thousand words. With the data visualized, it is easier for us […]
Principal Component Analysis for Dimensionality Reduction in Python
Reducing the number of input variables for a predictive model is referred to as dimensionality reduction. Fewer input variables can result in a simpler predictive model that may have better performance when making predictions on new data. Perhaps the most popular technique for dimensionality reduction in machine learning is Principal Component Analysis, or PCA for […]
How to Calculate Principal Component Analysis (PCA) from Scratch in Python
An important machine learning method for dimensionality reduction is called Principal Component Analysis. It is a method that uses simple matrix operations from linear algebra and statistics to calculate a projection of the original data into the same number or fewer dimensions. In this tutorial, you will discover the Principal Component Analysis machine learning method […]
Image Augmentation for Deep Learning with Keras
Data preparation is required when working with neural networks and deep learning models. Increasingly, data augmentation is also required on more complex object recognition tasks. In this post, you will discover how to use data preparation and data augmentation with your image datasets when developing and evaluating deep learning models in Python with Keras. After […]
A Gentle Introduction To Method Of Lagrange Multipliers
The method of Lagrange multipliers is a simple and elegant method of finding the local minima or local maxima of a function subject to equality or inequality constraints. Lagrange multipliers are also called undetermined multipliers. In this tutorial we’ll talk about this method when given equality constraints. In this tutorial, you will discover the method […]
A Gentle Introduction to Optimization / Mathematical Programming
Whether it is a supervised learning problem or an unsupervised problem, there will be some optimization algorithm working in the background. Almost any classification, regression or clustering problem can be cast as an optimization problem. In this tutorial, you will discover what is optimization and concepts related to it. After completing this tutorial, you will […]
6 Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms With Python
Dimensionality reduction is an unsupervised learning technique. Nevertheless, it can be used as a data transform pre-processing step for machine learning algorithms on classification and regression predictive modeling datasets with supervised learning algorithms. There are many dimensionality reduction algorithms to choose from and no single best algorithm for all cases. Instead, it is a good […]
Data Preparation for Machine Learning (7-Day Mini-Course)
Data Preparation for Machine Learning Crash Course. Get on top of data preparation with Python in 7 days. Data preparation involves transforming raw data into a form that is more appropriate for modeling. Preparing data may be the most important part of a predictive modeling project and the most time-consuming, although it seems to be […]
Tour of Data Preparation Techniques for Machine Learning
Predictive modeling machine learning projects, such as classification and regression, always involve some form of data preparation. The specific data preparation required for a dataset depends on the specifics of the data, such as the variable types, as well as the algorithms that will be used to model them that may impose expectations or requirements […]