Feature Engineering Made Easy

The data

Let's start with loading in our dataset and several other import statements we will be using to plot our data. It is good practice to begin a Jupyter notebook (iPython) with all the import statements you will be using. Obviously, you may get partway through your work and realize that you need to import a new package; also, to stay organized, it is a good idea to keep them in the beginning of your work.

The following code block includes the import statements we will be using for this case study. We will utilize each import in the example and it will become clear to you what each of them is used for as we work out our example:

# the olivetti face datasetfrom sklearn.datasets import fetch_lfw_people# feature extraction modules
from ...