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 to get some insights and decide on the next step in our machine learning models. In this tutorial, you will discover how to visualize data […]

Vector space models are to consider the relationship between data that are represented by vectors. It is popular in information retrieval systems but also useful for other purposes. Generally, this allows us to compare the similarity of two vectors from a geometric perspective. In this tutorial, we will see what is a vector space model and what it can do. After completing this tutorial, you will know: What is a vector space model and the properties of cosine similarity How […]

Singular value decomposition is a very popular linear algebra technique to break down a matrix into the product of a few smaller matrices. In fact, it is a technique that has many uses. One example is that we can use SVD to discover relationship between items. A recommender system can be build easily from this. In this tutorial, we will see how a recommender system can be build just using linear algebra techniques. After completing this tutorial, you will know: […]

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 see how we can build a primitive face recognition system with some simple linear algebra technique such as principal component analysis. After completing this tutorial, […]