Incremental PCA

[Rahul Gupta]

i wanted to implement incremental PCA.
Got this code for stack overflow but i am wondering what y = chunk.pop("y") does and what is this argument "y" to pop
from sklearn.decomposition import IncrementalPCA
import csv
import sys
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

dataset = sys.argv[1]
chunksize_ = 5 * 25000
dimensions = 300

reader = pd.read_csv(dataset, sep = ',', chunksize = chunksize_)
sklearn_pca = IncrementalPCA(n_components=dimensions)
for chunk in reader:
    y = chunk.pop("Y")
    sklearn_pca.partial_fit(chunk)

# Computed mean per feature
mean = sklearn_pca.mean_
# and stddev
stddev = np.sqrt(sklearn_pca.var_)

Xtransformed = None
for chunk in pd.read_csv(dataset, sep = ',', chunksize = chunksize_):
    y = chunk.pop("Y")
    Xchunk = sklearn_pca.transform(chunk)
    if Xtransformed == None:
        Xtransformed = Xchunk
    else:
        Xtransformed = np.vstack((Xtransformed, Xchunk))