Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Explicitly mention loadings in PCA documentation/examples

2014-06-27 Thread Joel Nothman
I have been hoping at some point to extend the document generation such that it automatically inserts Example links (with thumbnail icons) from reference API pages (e.g. http://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/generated/sklearn.decomposition.PCA.html#sklearn.decomposition.PCA) to examples where that cl

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Explicitly mention loadings in PCA documentation/examples

2014-06-27 Thread federico vaggi
https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/3322 On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:26 AM, federico vaggi wrote: > Actually - I missed that plot while looking through the docs, but that's > exactly the kind of example I had in mind. > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Andy wrote: > >> On 06/

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Explicitly mention loadings in PCA documentation/examples

2014-06-27 Thread federico vaggi
Actually - I missed that plot while looking through the docs, but that's exactly the kind of example I had in mind. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Andy wrote: > On 06/26/2014 02:43 PM, federico vaggi wrote: > > Ok - great, is it worth adding an example (showing a simple case of the > axis be

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Explicitly mention loadings in PCA documentation/examples

2014-06-27 Thread Andy
On 06/26/2014 02:43 PM, federico vaggi wrote: Ok - great, is it worth adding an example (showing a simple case of the axis being rotated) or should I just clean up the docs a bit? There is a plot here: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/decomposition/plot_ica_vs_pca.html What kind of

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Explicitly mention loadings in PCA documentation/examples

2014-06-26 Thread federico vaggi
Ok - great, is it worth adding an example (showing a simple case of the axis being rotated) or should I just clean up the docs a bit? On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Lars Buitinck wrote: > 2014-06-26 11:36 GMT+02:00 federico vaggi : > > Would a pull request clarifying this be welcome, or do pe

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Explicitly mention loadings in PCA documentation/examples

2014-06-26 Thread Lars Buitinck
2014-06-26 11:36 GMT+02:00 federico vaggi : > Would a pull request clarifying this be welcome, or do people think it's > clear enough as is? Maybe mentioning that this is commonly known as > 'loadings' would be enough. That sounds like a good idea. ---

[Scikit-learn-general] Explicitly mention loadings in PCA documentation/examples

2014-06-26 Thread federico vaggi
Hi, I was recently trying to compute how much each basis contributes to the principal components using the sklearn PCA and I had to spend a bit of time on google to figure out that this was already pre-calculated and stored in the components_ field of the PCA object. Would a pull request clarifyi