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The Data Science Workshop
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The Data Science Workshop

by Anthony So, Thomas Joseph, Robert Thas John, Andrew Worsley, Dr. Samuel Asare, Ivan Liu, Tiffany Ford, Barbora stetinova, Pritesh Tiwari
January 2020
Beginner
818 pages
15h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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12. Feature Engineering

Overview

By the end of the chapter, you will be able to merge multiple datasets together; bin categorical and numerical variables; perform aggregation on data; and manipulate dates using pandas.

This chapter will introduce you to some of the key techniques for creating new variables on an existing dataset.

Introduction

In the previous chapters, we learned how to analyze and prepare a dataset in order to increase its level of quality. In this chapter, we will introduce you to another interesting topic: creating new features, also known as feature engineering. You already saw some of these concepts in Chapter 3, Binary Classification, but we will dive a bit deeper into this chapter.

The objective of feature engineering ...

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ISBN: 9781838981266