What On Earth Is “Canonical Form?”

A mathematical overview of Eigen vectors, values, and decomposition as a whole in computing

Emma Boudreau
Towards Data Science
4 min readJan 26, 2021

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Introduction

Machine-learning problems can often be much more complex than simply plugging one-dimensional arrays into models. It is quite frequent that data provided is firstly not clean, and secondly in dimensions that…

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