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by jmdeldin 4612 days ago
I found Lindsay I. Smith's "A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis" [1] really useful because it covers the mathematics behind PCA but gives enough linear algebra background for it to be understandable by those with distant or weak math backgrounds (e.g., me).

[1] http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/cosc453/student_tutorials/principa...

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Thanks, that is incredibly interesting, especially the example at the end relating to facial recognition.
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