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# What is dimensionality reduction?

Dimensionality reduction is simply, the process of reducing the dimension of your feature set. Your feature set could be a dataset with a hundred columns (i.e features) or it could be an array of points that make up a large sphere in the three-dimensional space. Dimensionality reduction is bringing the number of columns down to say, twenty or converting the sphere to a circle in the two-dimensional space.

 

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