Singular Value Decomposition : Data Science Basics

So ... what is the SVD and why is it so useful for data science? *Note* : At 4:06 I meant to say "since all the u vectors are orthogonal to each other, the U'U=I is true". Linearly independent columns alone don't guarantee this property.

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