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Feature Engineering Made Easy

By : Sinan Ozdemir, Divya Susarla
Book Image

Feature Engineering Made Easy

By: Sinan Ozdemir, Divya Susarla

Overview of this book

Feature engineering is the most important step in creating powerful machine learning systems. This book will take you through the entire feature-engineering journey to make your machine learning much more systematic and effective. You will start with understanding your data—often the success of your ML models depends on how you leverage different feature types, such as continuous, categorical, and more, You will learn when to include a feature, when to omit it, and why, all by understanding error analysis and the acceptability of your models. You will learn to convert a problem statement into useful new features. You will learn to deliver features driven by business needs as well as mathematical insights. You'll also learn how to use machine learning on your machines, automatically learning amazing features for your data. By the end of the book, you will become proficient in Feature Selection, Feature Learning, and Feature Optimization.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface

Summary


This chapter focused on two feature learning tools: RBM and word embedding processes.

Both of these processes utilized deep learning architectures in order to learn new sets of features based on raw data. Both techniques took advantage of shallow networks in order to optimize for training times and used the weights and biases learned during the fitting phase to extract the latent structure of the data. 

Our next chapter will showcase four examples of feature engineering on real data taken from the open internet and how the tools that we have learned in this book will help us create the optimal machine learning pipelines.