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Python Feature Engineering Cookbook

You're reading from  Python Feature Engineering Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789806311
Pages 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
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 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

Performing mean normalization

In mean normalization, we center the variable at zero and rescale the distribution to the value range. This procedure involves subtracting the mean from each observation and then dividing the result by the difference between the minimum and maximum values:

This transformation results in a distribution centered at 0, with its minimum and maximum values within the range of -1 to 1. In this recipe, we will implement mean normalization with pandas and then with scikit-learn.

How to do it...

We'll begin by importing the required libraries, loading the dataset, and preparing the train and test sets:

  1. Import pandas and the required scikit-learn class and function:
import pandas as pd
from sklearn...
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