Data Mining Tutorial 2

Note: For those students who don't have sufficient matlab knowledge, please go through the matlab tutorials after class.

PCA in Matlab

Work through the Matlab tutorial on PCA here going through

Q1. What is main use for PCA?

Q2. How do you compute PCA?

  1. find the data covariance matrix $\Sigma$
  2. find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of $\Sigma$