Linear Algebra for Data Science — Matrices

Basic matrix concepts used in data science and machine learning

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INTRODUCTION

After going through this article, the reader should learn the following:

• Definition of Matrices
• Matrix multiplication
• Apply matrix multiplication to linear regression
• Inverse of a matrix
• Eigenvalues
• Eigenvectors

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