Preparations for lecture on Principal Component Analysis

As a preparation for the Principal Component Analysis convocation, make yourself acquainted with the material below, and subsequently complete any tasks assigned to you in canvas.

1. Watch the Video Lecture on Principal Component Analysis, and its slides
2. Read the section in VaderPlas on Principal Component Analysis from beginning of section upto but not including the subsections after “PCA for visualization”. Also read the subsection Principal Component Analysis Summary
3. Investigate the jupyter notebook on PCA of Lung Carcenomas

Additional material

1. StatExchange, explaining PCA for your grandma
2. Wikipedia on PCA
3. Applications of PCA. Section 2, upto, but not including section 2.1 of Wall et al..
4. Statquest on PCA.