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Machine Learning at Scale with H2O

You're reading from   Machine Learning at Scale with H2O A practical guide to building and deploying machine learning models on enterprise systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566019
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gregory Keys Gregory Keys
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Introduction to the H2O Machine Learning Platform for Data at Scale
2. Chapter 1: Opportunities and Challenges FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Platform Components and Key Concepts 4. Chapter 3: Fundamental Workflow – Data to Deployable Model 5. Section 2 – Building State-of-the-Art Models on Large Data Volumes Using H2O
6. Chapter 4: H2O Model Building at Scale – Capability Articulation 7. Chapter 5: Advanced Model Building – Part I 8. Chapter 6: Advanced Model Building – Part II 9. Chapter 7: Understanding ML Models 10. Chapter 8: Putting It All Together 11. Section 3 – Deploying Your Models to Production Environments
12. Chapter 9: Production Scoring and the H2O MOJO 13. Chapter 10: H2O Model Deployment Patterns 14. Section 4 – Enterprise Stakeholder Perspectives
15. Chapter 11: The Administrator and Operations Views 16. Chapter 12: The Enterprise Architect and Security Views 17. Section 5 – Broadening the View – Data to AI Applications with the H2O AI Cloud Platform
18. Chapter 13: Introducing H2O AI Cloud 19. Chapter 14: H2O at Scale in a Larger Platform Context 20. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix : Alternative Methods to Launch H2O Clusters

Feature engineering options

In this section, we will demonstrate how feature engineering can lead to better predictive models. Second only to data cleaning, typically, feature engineering is the most time-consuming of all tasks involved in the modeling process. It can also be the "secret sauce" that makes for a great predictive model.

So, what does feature engineering mean? Put simply, it is how to extract information from raw data into a form that is both usable by the modeling algorithm and interpretable for the problem at hand. For example, a date or date-time object might be represented in data as a string or a number (for example, Unix time is the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970). Presented with such features, an algorithm is liable to treat dates as levels of a categorical variable or a continuous numeric value. Neither of these forms is very helpful. However, embedded in this raw data is information about not only the day, the month...

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