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Feature Engineering Made Easy

You're reading from   Feature Engineering Made Easy Identify unique features from your dataset in order to build powerful machine learning systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287600
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Divya Susarla Divya Susarla
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Sinan Ozdemir Sinan Ozdemir
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Preface 1. Introduction to Feature Engineering 2. Feature Understanding – What's in My Dataset? FREE CHAPTER 3. Feature Improvement - Cleaning Datasets 4. Feature Construction 5. Feature Selection 6. Feature Transformations 7. Feature Learning 8. Case Studies 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Standardization and normalization

Up until now, we have dealt with identifying the types of data as well as the ways data can be missing and finally, the ways we can fill in missing data. Now, let's talk about how we can manipulate our data (and our features) in order to enhance our machine pipelines further. So far, we have tried four different ways of manipulating our dataset, and the best cross-validated accuracy we have achieved with a KNN model is .745. If we look back at some of the EDA we have previously done, we will notice something about our features:

impute = Imputer(strategy='mean')
# we will want to fill in missing values to see all 9 columns

pima_imputed_mean = pd.DataFrame(impute.fit_transform(pima), columns=pima_column_names)

Now, let's use a standard histogram to see the distribution across all nine columns, as follows, specifying a figure...

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