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Data Cleaning and Exploration with Machine Learning

You're reading from   Data Cleaning and Exploration with Machine Learning Get to grips with machine learning techniques to achieve sparkling-clean data quickly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241678
Length 542 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Walker Michael Walker
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Preface 1. Section 1 – Data Cleaning and Machine Learning Algorithms
2. Chapter 1: Examining the Distribution of Features and Targets FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Examining Bivariate and Multivariate Relationships between Features and Targets 4. Chapter 3: Identifying and Fixing Missing Values 5. Section 2 – Preprocessing, Feature Selection, and Sampling
6. Chapter 4: Encoding, Transforming, and Scaling Features 7. Chapter 5: Feature Selection 8. Chapter 6: Preparing for Model Evaluation 9. Section 3 – Modeling Continuous Targets with Supervised Learning
10. Chapter 7: Linear Regression Models 11. Chapter 8: Support Vector Regression 12. Chapter 9: K-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Gradient Boosted Regression 13. Section 4 – Modeling Dichotomous and Multiclass Targets with Supervised Learning
14. Chapter 10: Logistic Regression 15. Chapter 11: Decision Trees and Random Forest Classification 16. Chapter 12: K-Nearest Neighbors for Classification 17. Chapter 13: Support Vector Machine Classification 18. Chapter 14: Naïve Bayes Classification 19. Section 5 – Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction with Unsupervised Learning
20. Chapter 15: Principal Component Analysis 21. Chapter 16: K-Means and DBSCAN Clustering 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Identifying outliers and extreme values in bivariate relationships

It is hard to develop a reliable model without having a good sense of the bivariate relationships in our data. We not only care about the relationship between particular features and target variables but also about how features move together. If features are highly correlated, then modeling their independent effect becomes tricky or unnecessary. This may be a challenge, even if the features are highly correlated over just a range of values.

Having a good understanding of bivariate relationships is also important for identifying outliers. A value might be unexpected, even if it is not an extreme value. This is because some values for a feature are unusual when a second feature has certain values. This is easy to illustrate when one feature is categorical and the other is continuous.

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