Modern Dimension Reduction (Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences)

Waggoner, Philip D.

ISBN 10: 1108986897 / ISBN 13: 9781108986892

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern Dimension Reduction (Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108986897
• ISBN 13: 9781108986892
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Data are not only ubiquitous in society, but are increasingly complex both in size and dimensionality. Dimension reduction offers researchers and scholars the ability to make such complex, high dimensional data spaces simpler and more manageable. This Element offers readers a suite of modern unsupervised dimension reduction techniques along with hundreds of lines of R code, to efficiently represent the original high dimensional data space in a simplified, lower dimensional subspace. Launching from the earliest dimension reduction technique principal components analysis and using real social science data, I introduce and walk readers through application of the following techniques: locally linear embedding, t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), uniform manifold approximation and projection, self-organizing maps, and deep autoencoders. The result is a well-stocked toolbox of unsupervised algorithms for tackling the complexities of high dimensional data so common in modern society. All code is publicly accessible on Github.