10. Manual Feature Engineering: Manipulating Data for Fun and Profit

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# setup
from mlwpy import *
%matplotlib inline

iris = datasets.load_iris()
(iris_train,     iris_test,
 iris_train_tgt, iris_test_tgt) = skms.train_test_split(iris.data,
                                                        iris.target,
                                                        test_size=.25)
# remove units ' (cm)' from names
iris.feature_names = [fn[:-5] for fn in iris.feature_names]

# dataframe for convenience
iris_df = pd.DataFrame(iris.data, columns=iris.feature_names)
iris_df['species'] = iris.target_names[iris.target]

10.1 Feature Engineering Terminology and Motivation

We are going to turn our attention away from expanding our catalog of models and instead take a closer look at the data. Feature engineering refers to manipulation—addition, ...

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