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by jackthetab 1123 days ago
> The name of PCA does make it sound like you are selecting dimensions.

I certainly thought that!

Using somes terms from the previous comment, does this mean that the k < N subspace is not (necessarily) a subset of the N-space? Or is the subspace a subset of the data with a different coordinate system?

(Yes, I'm still trying to intuitively grasp these ideas.)