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Python Feature Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Soledad Galli
Book Image

Python Feature Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Soledad Galli

Overview of this book

Feature engineering, the process of transforming variables and creating features, albeit time-consuming, ensures that your machine learning models perform seamlessly. This second edition of Python Feature Engineering Cookbook will take the struggle out of feature engineering by showing you how to use open source Python libraries to accelerate the process via a plethora of practical, hands-on recipes. This updated edition begins by addressing fundamental data challenges such as missing data and categorical values, before moving on to strategies for dealing with skewed distributions and outliers. The concluding chapters show you how to develop new features from various types of data, including text, time series, and relational databases. With the help of numerous open source Python libraries, you'll learn how to implement each feature engineering method in a performant, reproducible, and elegant manner. By the end of this Python book, you will have the tools and expertise needed to confidently build end-to-end and reproducible feature engineering pipelines that can be deployed into production.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Creating pre-selected features

In the Creating and selecting features for a time series recipe, we learned how to select relevant features using tsfresh. We also discussed how we can use additional feature selection procedures to further reduce the number of features created from our time series.

In this recipe, we will create and select features using tsfresh. Next, we will reduce the feature space by utilizing Lasso regularization. Then, we will learn how to create a dictionary from the selected feature names to trigger the creation of those features from future time series.

How to do it...

Let’s begin by importing the necessary libraries and getting the dataset ready:

  1. Let’s import the required libraries and functions:
    import pandas as pd
    from sklearn.feature_selection import SelectFromModel
    from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
    from tsfresh import (
        extract_features,
        extract_relevant_features...