Principal component analysis (PCA) is a technique used to simplify complex datasets. It works by converting a set of observations of possibly correlated variables into a set of linearly uncorrelated variables called principal components. PCA identifies patterns in data and expresses the data in such a way as to highlight their similarities and differences. The main implementations of PCA are eigenvalue decomposition and singular value decomposition. PCA is useful for data compression, reducing dimensionality for visualization and building predictive models. However, it works best for data that follows a multidimensional normal distribution.
Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a factual method that permits you to sum up the data contained in enormous information tables by methods for a littler arrangement of "synopsis files" that can be all the more handily envisioned and broke down.
This document discusses dimensionality reduction techniques for data mining. It begins with an introduction to dimensionality reduction and reasons for using it. These include dealing with high-dimensional data issues like the curse of dimensionality. It then covers major dimensionality reduction techniques of feature selection and feature extraction. Feature selection techniques discussed include search strategies, feature ranking, and evaluation measures. Feature extraction maps data to a lower-dimensional space. The document outlines applications of dimensionality reduction like text mining and gene expression analysis. It concludes with trends in the field.
The document discusses exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques in R. It explains that EDA involves analyzing data using visual methods to discover patterns. Common EDA techniques in R include descriptive statistics, histograms, bar plots, scatter plots, and line graphs. Tools like R and Python are useful for EDA due to their data visualization capabilities. The document also provides code examples for creating various graphs in R.
- Naive Bayes is a classification technique based on Bayes' theorem that uses "naive" independence assumptions. It is easy to build and can perform well even with large datasets.
- It works by calculating the posterior probability for each class given predictor values using the Bayes theorem and independence assumptions between predictors. The class with the highest posterior probability is predicted.
- It is commonly used for text classification, spam filtering, and sentiment analysis due to its fast performance and high success rates compared to other algorithms.
Random forests are an ensemble learning method that constructs multiple decision trees during training and outputs the class that is the mode of the classes of the individual trees. It improves upon decision trees by reducing variance. The algorithm works by:
1) Randomly sampling cases and variables to grow each tree.
2) Splitting nodes using the gini index or information gain on the randomly selected variables.
3) Growing each tree fully without pruning.
4) Aggregating the predictions of all trees using a majority vote. This reduces variance compared to a single decision tree.
Introduction to principal component analysis (pca)Mohammed Musah
This document provides an introduction to principal component analysis (PCA), outlining its purpose for data reduction and structural detection. It defines PCA as a linear combination of weighted observed variables. The procedure section discusses assumptions like normality, homoscedasticity, and linearity that are evaluated prior to PCA. Requirements for performing PCA include the variables being at the metric or nominal level, sufficient sample size and variable ratios, and adequate correlations between variables.
This document discusses various data reduction techniques including dimensionality reduction through attribute subset selection, numerosity reduction using parametric and non-parametric methods like data cube aggregation, and data compression. It describes how attribute subset selection works to find a minimum set of relevant attributes to make patterns easier to detect. Methods for attribute subset selection include forward selection, backward elimination, and bi-directional selection. Decision trees can also help identify relevant attributes. Data cube aggregation stores multidimensional summarized data to provide fast access to precomputed information.
Introduction to Maximum Likelihood EstimatorAmir Al-Ansary
This document provides an overview of maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). It discusses key concepts like probability models, parameters, and the likelihood function. MLE aims to find the parameter values that make the observed data most likely. This can be done analytically by taking derivatives or numerically using optimization algorithms. Practical considerations like removing constants and using the log-likelihood are also covered. The document concludes by introducing the likelihood ratio test for comparing nested models.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a technique used to simplify complex data sets by identifying patterns in the data and expressing it in such a way to highlight similarities and differences. It works by subtracting the mean from the data, calculating the covariance matrix, and determining the eigenvectors and eigenvalues to form a feature vector representing the data in a lower dimensional space. PCA can be used to represent image data as a one dimensional vector by stacking the pixel rows of an image and applying this analysis to multiple images.
This document provides an overview of parametric and non-parametric supervised machine learning. Parametric learning uses a fixed number of parameters and makes strong assumptions about the data, while non-parametric learning uses a flexible number of parameters that grows with more data, making fewer assumptions. Common examples of parametric models include linear regression and logistic regression, while non-parametric examples include K-nearest neighbors, decision trees, and neural networks. The document also briefly discusses calculating parameters using ordinary least mean square for parametric models and the limitations when data does not follow predefined assumptions.
The document discusses the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm, a simple machine learning algorithm used for classification problems. KNN works by finding the K training examples that are closest in distance to a new data point, and assigning the most common class among those K examples as the prediction for the new data point. The document covers how KNN calculates distances between data points, how to choose the K value, techniques for handling different data types, and the strengths and weaknesses of the KNN algorithm.
1. Machine learning involves developing algorithms that can learn from data and improve their performance over time without being explicitly programmed. 2. Neural networks are a type of machine learning algorithm inspired by the human brain that can perform both supervised and unsupervised learning tasks. 3. Supervised learning involves using labeled training data to infer a function that maps inputs to outputs, while unsupervised learning involves discovering hidden patterns in unlabeled data through techniques like clustering.
Decision tree is a type of supervised learning algorithm (having a pre-defined target variable) that is mostly used in classification problems. It is a tree in which each branch node represents a choice between a number of alternatives, and each leaf node represents a decision.
Data preprocessing involves transforming raw data into an understandable and consistent format. It includes data cleaning, integration, transformation, and reduction. Data cleaning aims to fill missing values, smooth noise, and resolve inconsistencies. Data integration combines data from multiple sources. Data transformation handles tasks like normalization and aggregation to prepare the data for mining. Data reduction techniques obtain a reduced representation of data that maintains analytical results but reduces volume, such as through aggregation, dimensionality reduction, discretization, and sampling.
1) Machine learning involves analyzing data to find patterns and make predictions. It uses mathematics, statistics, and programming.
2) Key aspects of machine learning include understanding the business problem, collecting and preparing data, building and evaluating models, and different types of machine learning algorithms like supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.
3) Common machine learning algorithms discussed include linear regression, logistic regression, KNN, K-means clustering, decision trees, and handling issues like missing values, outliers, and feature engineering.
This document discusses using complexity analysis as an advanced method for data mining. It involves 3 steps: 1) Measuring the information content in scatter plots using image entropy. 2) Identifying relationships between variables using mutual information. 3) Repeating steps 1 and 2 for all variable pairs to map dependencies and identify key interrelated and isolated variables. Complexity is defined by the number and nature of relationships, providing insights into system controllability, predictability, and distance from critical complexity. Complexity analysis can extract more useful insights than simple correlations when data is complex, turbulent or chaotic.
Working with the data for Machine LearningMehwish690898
The document discusses various techniques for dimensionality reduction in machine learning. It explains that dimensionality reduction transforms high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional representation while retaining important information. Techniques include feature selection, which selects a subset of relevant features, and feature extraction, which transforms existing features into a new set of features. Principal component analysis (PCA) is presented as a feature extraction method that finds new axes along which the data has maximum variance.
Anomaly Detection for Real-World SystemsManojit Nandi
(1) Anomaly detection aims to identify data points that are noticeably different from expected patterns in a dataset. (2) Common approaches include statistical modeling, machine learning classification, and algorithms designed specifically for anomaly detection. (3) Streaming data poses unique challenges due to limited memory and need for rapid identification of anomalies. (4) Heuristics like z-scores and median absolute deviation provide robust ways to measure how extreme observations are compared to a distribution's center. (5) Density-based methods quantify how isolated data points are to identify anomalies. (6) Time series algorithms decompose trends and seasonality to identify global and local anomalous spikes and troughs.
This document discusses feature engineering, which is the process of transforming raw data into features that better represent the underlying problem for predictive models. It covers feature engineering categories like feature selection, feature transformation, and feature extraction. Specific techniques covered include imputation, handling outliers, binning, log transforms, scaling, and feature subset selection methods like filter, wrapper, and embedded methods. The goal of feature engineering is to improve machine learning model performance by preparing proper input data compatible with algorithm requirements.
A walk through the maze of understanding Data Visualization using several tools such as Python, R, Knime and Google Data Studio.
This workshop is hands-on and this set of presentations is designed to be an agenda to the workshop
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This document discusses how machine learning techniques can be applied to system monitoring tasks performed by system administrators. It argues that machine learning can help improve the accuracy of monitoring by detecting complex relationships between system measurements that would be difficult for humans to specify. The document provides examples of how machine learning can be used to identify normal and abnormal system behavior based on the covariance, contravariance, or independence of measurement pairs, without needing explicit thresholds. It suggests this approach could provide more specific and sensitive monitoring than traditional threshold-based methods.
This document summarizes a study on human activity recognition using mobile sensors. It analyzes the performance of a k-nearest neighbors classifier on a publicly available dataset containing accelerometer data from sensors on both arms during various activities. The study finds that some activities are recognized more accurately than others by the basic classifier. It also shows that combining data from both arms and selecting optimal features improves recognition performance compared to using each arm individually with all features.
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This document discusses techniques for feature extraction in big data using distance covariance based principal component analysis (PCA). It provides background on big data and dimensionality reduction. It then explains distance covariance and how it can be used to calculate principal components for feature extraction in big data, which can help reduce computation time compared to traditional PCA. Some modifications of distance-PCA are proposed to eliminate the need for normalization of the data. Potential drawbacks and areas for future work are also outlined.
The presentation discusses the challenges of software estimation and provides techniques to improve the estimation process. It notes that typical software organizations struggle with estimates being incorrect by 100% or more. It emphasizes defining estimates, targets, and commitments differently and accounting for external factors, project dynamics, and risk when generating estimates. Additionally, it encourages moving projects out of the "cone of uncertainty" through well-defined requirements and products. Estimators are advised to count or compute estimates where possible and only use judgment as a last resort. Overall, the presentation provides guidance on avoiding underestimation by focusing on definition, risk, and quantifying work items.
Software/Application Development EstimationJohn Nollin
Why as a software industry are we struggling so often with hitting our estimates? Does the problems reside in the way we are estimating a project or the way we are executing them? Through 30+ years of modern software development what have we learned and what are we continuing to struggle with today?
In this session I would like to discuss not only the problems associated with estimation and how to avoid them, but more importantly how we can plan for them, turning our estimation process into not only an art, but a science. Well cover how to sell your estimate internally, and arm you with the methodologies to support your numbers, and avoid the pitfalls that create projects that go 100% overbudget.
What is the problem with software estimation?
-- The morale, metrics and realities we have learned over time
-- The results of our decades worth of estimation error
Avoiding Risk
-- Project entry point of sale
-- Risk association with point of sale
-- Products in the front, estimations in the back
-- Getting out of jail
-- Other lessons learned
The Elusive Discovery phase
-- How to estimate a discovery
-- How to sell a discovery
Planning for Risk
-- Estimation types
--- Gut - An art form
--- Comparables - An art/science
--- Factors/formula - A science
-- Contingency
--- Rating systems
--- Formulas
---Granularity
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Vamos desmistificar alguns desses conceitos e mostrar como podemos começar a aplicar algumas dessas técnicas em nossos projetos. E, sendo uma das mais usadas linguagens para análise de dados, veremos como Python pode nos ajudar nessa jornada.
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This document provides an overview of machine learning techniques including artificial neural networks, clustering, genetic algorithms, and reinforcement learning. It discusses how machines can learn through supervised and unsupervised methods, using techniques from statistics, brain modeling, and more. Specific algorithms covered include backpropagation for training neural networks, k-means clustering, genetic algorithms that represent solutions as chromosomes, and reinforcement learning approaches like Markov decision processes. The goal is to explain how different machine learning methods can allow computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
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Selling software today doesn’t look anything like it did a few years ago. Especially software that runs inside a customer environment. Dreamfactory has used Anchore and Ask Sage to achieve compliance in a record time. Reducing attack surface to keep vulnerability counts low, and configuring automation to meet those compliance requirements. After achieving compliance, they are keeping up to date with Anchore Enterprise in their CI/CD pipelines.
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Lecture 8 of the IVE 2024 short course on the Pscyhology of XR.
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Using ScyllaDB for Real-Time Write-Heavy WorkloadsScyllaDB
Keeping latencies low for highly concurrent, intensive data ingestion
ScyllaDB’s “sweet spot” is workloads over 50K operations per second that require predictably low (e.g., single-digit millisecond) latency. And its unique architecture makes it particularly valuable for the real-time write-heavy workloads such as those commonly found in IoT, logging systems, real-time analytics, and order processing.
Join ScyllaDB technical director Felipe Cardeneti Mendes and principal field engineer, Lubos Kosco to learn about:
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5. 5
Intuition
fails in high
dimensions
Building a classifier in two or three
dimensions is relatively easy…
It’s usually possible to find a
reasonable frontier between
examples of different
classes just by visual inspection.
11. 11
Objective of
PCA
To perform dimensionality
reduction while preserving
as much of the randomness
in the high-dimensional
space as possible
12. 12
Principal
Component
Analysis
It takes your cloud of data
points, and rotates it such
that the maximum variability
is visible.
PCA is mainly concerned
with identifying correlations
in the data.
13. 13
Measuring
Correlation
Degree and type of relationship
between any two or more quantities
(variables) in which they vary together
over a period
Correlation can vary from +1 to -1.
Values close to +1 indicate a high-
degree of positive correlation, and
values close to -1 indicate a high
degree of negative correlation.
Values close to zero indicate poor
correlation of either kind, and 0
indicates no correlation at all
18. 18
Steps for PCA 1. Standardize the data
2. Calculate the covariance matrix
3. Find the eigenvalues and
eingenvectors of the covariance
matrix
4. Plot the eigenvectors / principal
components over the scaled data
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Agile
Analytics
We could use PCA as a tool to
quickly identify correlation
between features, helping
feature extraction and
selection.
Reducing dimensionality using
PCA or other similar technique
can help us achieve better and
quicker results.