Environment Setup

conda create --name DataMiningAndExploration
conda activate DataMiningAndExploration
conda install mkl-service
conda install mkl
conda install -c anaconda ipykernel nbconvert
python -m ipykernel install --user --name=DMaE

DMaE = Data Mining and Exploration
Switch to DMaE kernel in Jupyter Notebook

Contents

1. Principal Component Analysis. View

• analysis of PCA data transformation technique
• dimensiality reduction using PCA
• analysis of the variancy expalined by principal components
• optimal amount of principal components based on scree plot
• eigenfaces based on LFW model

2. Decision Trees and k-NN. View

• Decision Trees
• k-fold Cross Validation
• Optimal tree depth based on different criterion
• Decision Tree pruning
• Classification using DT and k-NN