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Machine Learning for Data Mining

You're reading from   Machine Learning for Data Mining Improve your data mining capabilities with advanced predictive modeling

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828974
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Doing additional data preparation

In this section, we will see how additional preparation done on the data can allow us to extract an extra piece of information.

Until now, we have improved our model by modifying its options, using a different model, changing the perspective of looking at data, and removing noise. Sometimes though, these techniques will just slightly improve the model; but if you could go back to the data preparation phase and look for extra bits that can be pulled from the data that can give better results, this can really go a long way in improving accuracy.

Preparing the data

Follow these steps to prepare the data in the data preparation stage:

  1. Get your data and partition it.
  2. Run a Neural Net model again...
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