We figured out the implementation of the PCA algorithm using the `numpy` library. `Scikit-learn` can let us start using this method with just one line of code:
```python
from sklearn.decomposition import PCA
pca_model = PCA(n_components = 2)
```

`PCA` is a `scikit-learn` library class. It contains more than 5 arguments, but we are most interested in only one - `n_components`. This argument is responsible for the number of main components that we want to get. The only condition is that the number of components must, of course, be equal to or less than the variables in the dataset.
The `PCA` class contains 2 main methods that we will use: `fit` and `transform`. The `fit()` method loads the data into the class, and the `transform()` method transforms it, and we get the result of the `PCA` algorithm. If we want to combine these 2 operations, use the `fit_transform()` method:
```python
pca_model = PCA(n_components = 2)

# fit() and transform()
pca_model.fit(X)
X_reduced = pca_model.transform(X)

# fit_transform()
X_reduced = pca_model.fit_transform(X)
```

If we want to get the components that the algorithm has calculated, call the `.components_` attribute:
```python
print(pca_model.components_)
```

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