Feature Engineering Made Easy

Supervised learning

Oftentimes, we hear about feature engineering in the specific context of supervised learning, otherwise known as predictive analytics. Supervised learning algorithms specifically deal with the task of predicting a value, usually one of the attributes of the data, using the other attributes of the data. Take, for example, the dataset representing the network intrusion:

DateTime	Protocol	Urgent	Malicious
June 2nd, 2018	TCP	FALSE	TRUE
June 2nd, 2018	HTTP	TRUE	TRUE
June 2nd, 2018	HTTP	TRUE	FALSE
June 3rd, 2018	HTTP	FALSE	TRUE

 

This is the same dataset as before, but let's dissect it further in the context of predictive analytics.

Notice that we have four attributes of ...