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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning
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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

by Sibanjan Das, Umit Mert Cakmak
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
282 pages
6h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Winsorizing

Winsorizing is the method to replace extreme values with smaller absolute values. It orders the non-null values in numeric columns, computes the tail values, and then substitutes the tail values by the defined parameter.

We can use the winsorize method from the SciPy package to deal with outliers. SciPy is a Python library that is a collection of open source Python contributions on the scientific and technical computing space. It has an extensive collection of statistical computation modules, linear algebra, optimization, signal and image processing modules, and many more modules.

Once we import the winsorize method, we are required to pass the data and the limit parameters to the function. The computations and substitution of ...

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