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[Day 133] Gathering data for the Scottish dataset project + Factor analysis + Grokking ML + MLxFundamentals Day 4 (2)

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 Hello :) Today is Day 133! A quick summary of today: started putting together some audio clips + transcription for the Scottish dataset project saw how eigenvalues play a role in factor analysis started reading Grokking Machine Learning on Manning.com finished MLx Fundamentals ' final session Firstly, about the audio data My Scottish partner for this project has recorded various phrases in Glaswegian in the past and uploaded them to youtube . Today I did 4 of the 10 videos.  To cut the clips I ended up using an app called VideoPad, and even though it is a paid app, it allows me to just cut an audio clips in smaller pieces and save them as new files.  This is a sample audio waveform of one of the 4 videos What I did was, make short clips around each expression. I am not sure what these waves are called when there is speech. So for example from the above, I ended up with 36 clips, and uploaded them all (along with the other 3 videos' audio clips) to our project's drive. And