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Principal Component Analysis: Reducing Dimensionality
Master PCA from first principles. Learn variance, covariance, eigenvectors, principal components, variance explained, and how to use PCA for preprocessing and visualization in Python.
DBSCAN: Density-Based Clustering for Complex Shapes
Master DBSCAN from first principles. Learn core points, border points, noise, epsilon and min_samples tuning, comparison with K-Means, and Python implementation with scikit-learn.
Hierarchical Clustering: Building Dendrograms
Master hierarchical clustering from scratch. Learn agglomerative and divisive approaches, linkage criteria, dendrogram interpretation, cutting trees, and Python implementation with scipy and scikit-learn.
Choosing the Number of Clusters: The Elbow Method
Learn every method for choosing k in K-Means clustering: the elbow method, silhouette analysis, gap statistic, Calinski-Harabasz, Davies-Bouldin, and the X-Means algorithm with Python code.
Implementing K-Means Clustering in Python
Learn to implement K-Means clustering in Python from scratch and with scikit-learn. Covers preprocessing, multiple datasets, cluster evaluation, visualization, and production patterns.
