Machine Learning

Chapter 4

Basics of Feature Engineering

OBJECTIVE OF THE CHAPTER

In the last three chapters, you have been introduced to the basic concepts of machine learning. Also, the process to start modelling a problem has also been discussed in details. With this context in mind, in this chapter, we will introduce you to another very important aspect of machine learning, that is feature engineering. Though not a core part of the machine learning processes, feature engineering is a critical allied task that we need to perform to make learning more effective. It has three key components – feature construction, feature selection, and feature transformation, each of which will be covered in details in this chapter.

4.1 INTRODUCTION

In the last three ...