AWS Certified Machine Learning Study Guide

Chapter 7Feature Engineering

THE AWS CERTIFIED MACHINE LEARNING (ML) SPECIALTY EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

• Domain 2.0: Exploratory Data Analysis
  • 2.2 Perform feature engineering

One of the most important stages of machine learning is feature engineering. We will cover some key concepts of engineering features for different kinds of datasets as well as describe a few AWS tools that are designed to help with feature generation and reusability.

Feature Engineering Concepts

In the previous chapter, we discussed how you can collect and prepare your data for machine learning. This often involves basic data transformations such as converting data types or data formats (say from ...