A Quick Way to Check the Linearity of Data

Learn how to use PCA to check if data is linear or non-linear

When working on new data, the first question that comes to mind is about the distribution of the data. The distribution can be linear or non-linear. Let’s say we want to compress a 100-dimensional feature vector to fewer dimensions. We can either use PCA or an Autoencoder to compress the features. But, as we know, PCA does not work well for non-linear data. On …

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