Linear Algebra and Feature Selection

Providing you with the theoretical and practical foundations you need to apply machine learning techniques with confidence and understanding.

with Aleksandar Samsiev and Ivan Manov

Course Overview

Linear Algebra and Feature Selection is the course that provides you with the knowledge you need to grasp the math processes behind the machine learning algorithms for dimensionality reduction. Mastering the fundamentals of linear algebra will help you develop in-demand practical skills, such as building your own algorithms or choosing the most appropriate existing ones for a specific task you need to solve. The techniques you will learn - feature extraction and feature selection will enable you to handle high-dimensional data efficiently. In addition, you will get familiar with the mathematical concepts behind PCA and LDA, and practice applying these types of analysis using the corresponding Python libraries.

32 High Quality Lessons

0 Practical Tasks

3 Hours of Video

Certificate of Achievement

Skills you will gain

data analysismachine learningmathematicspythontheory

What You'll Learn

Working with machine learning is not only about applying algorithms. It’s about understanding their inner workings and how they function. This course gives you insight into the dimensionality reduction algorithms PCA and LDA and explains the math processes behind them.

Understand the math behind machine learning models

Become capable of solving linear equations

Calculate eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Become familiar with basic and advanced linear algebra notions

Determine independency of a set of vectors

Carry out Principal Components Analysis

Perform Linear Discriminant Analysis

Perform Dimensionality Reduction in Python

Compare the performance of PCA and LDA for classification with SVMs

Curriculum

Linear Algebra Essentials

15 Lesson 76 Min

What Does the Course Cover Free Why Linear Algebra? Free Solving Quadratic Equations Free Vectors Free Matrices Free The Transpose of Vectors and Matrices, the Identity Matrix Free Linear Independence and Linear Span of Vectors Free Basis of a Vector Space, Determinant of a Matrix, Inverse of a Matrix Free Solving Equations of the Form A*x=b Free The Gauss Method Free Other Solutions to the Equation A*x=b Free Determining Linear Independence of a Random Set of Vectors Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Calculating Eigenvalues Calculating Eigenvectors
Dimensionality Reduction Motivation

2 Lesson 7 Min

Feature Selection, Feature Extraction, and Dimensionality Reduction The Curse of Dimensionality
Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

4 Lesson 31 Min

Principal Component Analysis – Overview A Step-by-Step Explanation of PCA on California Estates – Example The Theory Behind PCA PCA Covariance Matrix in Jupyter – Analysis and Interpretation
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA)

11 Lesson 60 Min

Overall Mean and Class Means Linear Discriminant Analysis – Overview LDA: Calculating Within- and Between-Class Scatter Matrices A Step-by-Step Еxplanation of LDA on a Wine Quality Dataset – Example Calculating the Within- and Between-Class Scatter Matrices Calculating Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues for the LDA Analysis of LDA LDA vs. PCA Setting Up the Classifier to Compare LDA and PCA Coding the Classifier for LDA and PCA Analysis of the Training and Testing Times for the Classifier and Its Accuracy

“Linear algebra and feature selection have shaped the world of machine learning and can be extremely useful in identifying the most efficient approach to manipulating data. This course will help you understand the mathematical concepts behind ML and how to integrate them into the feature selection activity.”

Aleksandar Samsiev

Worked at 365

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