Day 10
Today I finished running trials on the remaining two preprocessing methods. I recorded the means and standard deviations of the three metrics of each preprocessing method in a chart. Also, for one of the methods, called "PCA" or Principal Component Analysis, Ron had me begin a separate experiment: I was to find the mean-class accuracy when using PCA with different numbers of components. I would do this first using PCA with whitening, which is a linear data transformation, and then without whitening, and compare the two groups of results. I added to my code so that it could run thirty trials with each number of components I was to test. I had to make adjustments in my code for PCA because it is used differently than the other preprocessing methods I am testing. I began to run the trials on PCA with each number of components (of which I am testing eleven). I ran trials and recorded the results from using PCA with whitening with nine different numbers of components today. I plan to either run the remainder with whitening and all of those without whitening either overnight or tomorrow. Also, during lunch today I went to a presentation about studying young stars through telescope imaging. I learned about how scientists use image data to determine the distance of stars and the substances of which they are made.
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