Deadlines
- Moodle Reading Mon Oct 4, midnight
- Practice 4 Mon Oct 4, midnight
- Book Ch. 2 — How a Number Comes to Be — read for Forum 2, Fri Oct 1
- Forum 2 Wed Oct 6, midnight
Week 5: Clustering & Dimensionality Reduction
Learning Objectives
- 05A I can apply k-means clustering to group data and interpret the resulting cluster assignments.
- 05B I can evaluate clustering quality using the elbow method and silhouette score to choose an appropriate k.
- 05C I can apply PCA to reduce dimensionality and interpret how much variance each component explains.