Understanding PCA using Stack Overflow data

This year, I have given some talks about understanding principal component analysis using what I spend day in and day out with, Stack Overflow data. You can see a recording of one of these talks from rstudio::conf 2018. When I have given these talks, I’ve focused a lot on understanding PCA. This blog post walks through how I implemented PCA and how I made the plots I used in my talk.

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