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How it works

PCA standardizes your selected features and rotates them into independent 'principal components', ordered by how much variation each captures. The scree chart shows how many components carry real signal; loadings show which of your original columns define each component; and the observation map plots every row on the two dominant components, where clusters and group separation become visible.

Use it when you have many numeric columns and want to know what actually varies — before clustering, modelling, or building an index.

Not for categorical data, and non-linear structure (curved manifolds) is better served by t-SNE or UMAP.

Built for: Analysts and data scientists making sense of wide, correlated datasets

Typical data source: Any spreadsheet or CSV with several numeric metric columns

ResearchMarketingFinanceOperationsHealthcareE-commerce

What data do you need?

Any table with several numeric columns. For example, customer metrics:

ad_spend (numeric) store_visits (numeric) basket_size (numeric) support_tickets (numeric) return_rate (numeric)
61.9 26.1 121.5 28.9 4.6
38.4 14.9 79.7 37.2 7.1
55.0 22.4 108.3 31.1 5.3

Minimum 10 rows · Best with 50-10,000 rows and 3-12 numeric features

What's in the report?

Principal component analysis on the numeric columns you choose. See how many independent dimensions your data really has, which features move together, and how observations spread across the dominant components — scree chart, loadings, contributions, and an observation map.

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Variance Explained by Component

The scree chart — how much variation each component captures, and where the signal stops.

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Component Summary

Eigenvalues and cumulative variance, with the standard cut-offs (Kaiser, 80%/90%) computed for you.

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Feature Contributions

Your features ranked by how much they define the dominant structure.

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Observation Map (PC1 vs PC2)

Every observation mapped onto the two main components — clusters and gradients become visible here.

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Component Loadings

Which original columns define each component, so you can name them in your domain's language.

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AI Insights

Plain-English interpretation — what the numbers mean, what's significant, and what to do next.

The Question This Answers

Do my 10 KPIs really measure 10 different things — or just 2?

Map your metrics as features. The scree chart shows the effective dimensionality, and the loadings reveal which KPIs are redundant restatements of the same underlying factor.

Questions?

See our FAQ for details on pricing, data privacy, and how the analysis works. Every report includes a Methodology section showing the statistical test, assumptions checked, and diagnostics run.

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