You Don’t Know SVD (Singular Value Decomposition)

Truly Understanding SVD — The Intuitive Core Idea

Hussein Abdulrahman
Towards Data Science
6 min readFeb 21, 2019

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Back in elementary mechanics, you learned that any force vector can be decomposed into its components along the x and y axes:

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Congratulations. Now you know what singular value decomposition is.

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