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Learning Apache Spark 2
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Learning Apache Spark 2

by Muhammad Asif Abbasi
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
356 pages
7h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Feature engineering

Feature engineering is perhaps the most important topic in machine learning. The success and failure of a model to predict the future depends primarily on how you engineer features to get a better lift. The difference between an experienced data scientist and a novice would be their ability to engineer features from the data sets given, and this is perhaps the most difficult and time consuming aspect of machine learning. This is where the understanding of business problems is the key. Feature engineering is basically an art more than it is a science, and basically it is needed to frame the problem. So what is feature engineering?

Feature engineering is the process of transforming raw data into features that better represent ...

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