Unsupervised Learning Algorithm: Principal Component Analysis

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

PCA is commonly used to reduce the dimensionality of data while preserving as much variance as possible. In high-dimensional datasets, it can be challenging to identify significant patterns or relationships due to the noise and complexity of the data. Additionally, computational costs and the risk of overfitting increase with high-dimensional datasets.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to implement PCA as an unsupervised learning algorithm to transform high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional space. The solution would:

• Calculate the covariance matrix of the data to understand the relationships between features.
• Find the eigenvectors (principal components) and eigenvalues of the covariance matrix to determine the directions of maximum variance.
• Project the data onto the first few principal components, reducing the number of dimensions while retaining as much of the variance as possible.
• Provide a visual representation of the principal components to help users understand how the data varies along the most significant axes.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding): This alternative could be used for reducing dimensions in a non-linear fashion, especially for visualization in 2D or 3D. However, it doesn't focus on preserving the global structure of the data and can be computationally expensive.
• Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA): While similar to PCA, LDA works by maximizing the separation between predefined classes rather than capturing the variance. It requires labeled data, so it's more appropriate for supervised learning.

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