8.3 Practical Exercises: Chapter 8
This practical exercise section provides hands-on experience with AutoML tools, focusing on automated feature engineering, model selection, and pipeline optimization. By working through these exercises, you’ll develop familiarity with using libraries like Featuretools, Auto-sklearn, and TPOT to streamline feature engineering and model building.
Exercise 1: Using Featuretools for Deep Feature Synthesis
Objective: Create new features from relational data using Featuretools’ deep feature synthesis.
Instructions:
Define a set of related dataframes, including a customers table and a transactions table.
Use Featuretools to generate features that aggregate transaction details at the customer level.
Display the feature matrix ...