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Python Feature Engineering Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Feature Engineering Cookbook Over 70 recipes for creating, engineering, and transforming features to build machine learning models

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789806311
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Soledad Galli Soledad Galli
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Foreseeing Variable Problems When Building ML Models 2. Imputing Missing Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Encoding Categorical Variables 4. Transforming Numerical Variables 5. Performing Variable Discretization 6. Working with Outliers 7. Deriving Features from Dates and Time Variables 8. Performing Feature Scaling 9. Applying Mathematical Computations to Features 10. Creating Features with Transactional and Time Series Data 11. Extracting Features from Text Variables 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sections

In this book, you will find several headings that appear frequently (Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more..., and See also).

To give clear instructions on how to complete a recipe, use these sections as follows:

Getting ready

This section tells you what to expect in the recipe and describes how to set up any software or any preliminary settings required for the recipe.

How to do it…

This section contains the steps required to follow the recipe.

How it works…

This section usually consists of a detailed explanation of what happened in the previous section.

There's more…

This section consists of additional information about the recipe in order to make you more knowledgeable about the recipe.

See also

This section provides helpful links to other useful information for the recipe.

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