""" ==================================== PCA 2D projection of Iris dataset ==================================== The Iris dataset represents 3 kind of Iris flowers (Setosa, Versicolour and Virginica) with 4 attributes: sepal length, sepal width, petal length and petal width. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) applied to this data identifies the combination of attributes (principal components, or directions in the feature space) that account for the most variance in the data. Here we plot the different samples on the 2 first principal components. """ print __doc__ import pylab as pl from scikits.learn import datasets from scikits.learn.pca import PCA iris = datasets.load_iris() X = iris.data y = iris.target target_names = iris.target_names pca = PCA(n_components=2) X_r = pca.fit(X).transform(X) # Percentage of variance explained for each components print pca.explained_variance_ pl.figure() for c, i, target_name in zip("rgb", [0, 1, 2], target_names): pl.scatter(X_r[y==i,0], X_r[y==i,1], c=c, label=target_name) pl.legend() pl.title('PCA of IRIS dataset') pl.show()