April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 47m
English
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.
In the last three ...