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wouldn't principal component analysis have done the same thing without the brute forcing?
by fnord77 6y ago
wouldn't principal component analysis have done the same thing without the brute forcing?
- scottlocklin 6y agoThe engineer wouldn't have been able to waste the week feeling fancy fiddling with GPUs in that case.
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- shbm 6y agoYes. I think so. Or maybe some correlation plots. I doubt that a proper EDA was performed pre-modelling.
- billo-ollib 6y agoSince the variables are categorical, won't PCA have to be modified to use it effectively? To my knowledge, PCA can only be used for continuous variables.