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PCA — Principal Component Analysis (Explained)

Learn PCA: variance, principal components, dimensionality reduction, and when to use it.

Welcome to PCA Explained!

PCA helps you reduce complexity while keeping the most important directions of variance. Generate a small dataset or upload one, then watch how the principal components emerge.

How it works

  • Mean-center the data
  • Compute principal components from the covariance matrix
  • Project to 1..k components and inspect variance retained