COMP336 PCA Assignment

This assignment is worth 20% of your mark for COMP336/COMP529. Failure on this assignment can be compensated by higher marks on other assessments on the module. The assignment aims to assess the following learning outcome: “Understanding of Algorithmic approaches for handling batch and streaming analysis”. Any questions about the description of this task should be posted to the following discussion board: Ask here for clarifications regarding Assignment 2 ASSESSMENT The report will be assessed according to the following criteria (Criterion : Percentage) Clarity of presentation (including succinctness) of main report : 20% Quality of the code (including assessment of how easy it is to understand) : 40% Quality of the analysis performed : 40% There is no fixed template for your report. For each question you should provide part of your code, its output, with some description explaining it. Make sure to mark clearly which of the 10 questions you are answering in your report at any point, so we do not miss it. You should avoid solutions that are very efficient but impossible to understand, and implementations that are very inefficient (e.g., run for more than 10 minutes on a standard computer). Anything in between should be fine. Just like your report, your code should be well-structured: it should be obvious which question is addressed by each part of your code. If you think that your solution may not be clear enough, simply add more