Feature Engineering Made Easy

Feature understanding – what’s in my dataset?

In our first subtopic, we will start to build our fundamentals in dealing with data. By understanding the data in front of us, we can start to have a better idea of where to go next. We will begin to explore the different types of data out there as well as how to recognize the type of data inside datasets. We will look at datasets from several domains and identify how they are different from each other and how they are similar to each other. Once we are able to comfortably examine data and identify the characteristics of different attributes, we can start to understand the types of transformations that are allowed and that promise to improve our machine learning algorithms.

Among the different ...