Elements

The elements of data science refers here to the foundational theory and methods of statistical and machine learning.

Because of the intrinsically interdisciplinary nature of the subject, these foundations draw from numerous related fields: . The categorization here therefore represents only one possible, but hopefully coherent, systematization.

Unsupervised Learning

• Cluster Analysis

» Overview
» K-means Clustering
» DBSCAN

• Signal Decomposition and Dimensionality Reduction

» Overview
» Principal Component Analysis

• Rule Induction

» Overview