When we analyze problems from various perspectives provided we have a very good understanding of those areas, we...

When we analyze problems from various perspectives provided we have a very good understanding of those areas, we would be able to reduce down the views to meaningful ones. In terms of matrix, reducing the rank. In terms of PCA, reducing it to lowest number of independent and/or uncorrelated variables.

This also forms the crux of data filtering and cleaning.
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