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Variance of the PCA features

The fish dataset is 6-dimensional. But what is its intrinsic dimension? Make a plot of the variances of the PCA features to find out. As before, samples is a 2D array, where each row represents a fish. You'll need to standardize the features first.

Instructions
100 XP
  • Create an instance of StandardScaler called scaler.
  • Create a PCA instance called pca.
  • Use the make_pipeline() function to create a pipeline chaining scaler and pca.
  • Use the .fit() method of pipeline to fit it to the fish samples samples.
  • Extract the number of components used using the .n_components_ attribute of pca. Place this inside a range() function and store the result as features.
  • Use the plt.bar() function to plot the explained variances, with features on the x-axis and pca.explained_variance_ on the y-axis.