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LinkedIn Learning

Applied Machine Learning: Feature Engineering

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Extract the maximum value from your data using feature engineering. Learn how to clean, normalize, and create features to improve the performance of your machine learning models.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Applied ML: Feature engineering
  • What you should know
1. Basic Techniques
  • Imputation
  • Filling in missing values
  • Binning
  • Log transform
  • Scaling
  • Challenge: Basic techniques
  • Solution: Basic techniques
2. Categorical Encoding
  • One hot encoding
  • Hashing encoder
  • Mean target encoding
  • Challenge: Categorical
  • Solution: Categorical
3. Feature Extraction
  • PCA
  • Feature aggregation
  • TFIDF
  • Text embeddings
  • Challenge: Feature extraction
  • Solution: Feature extraction
4. Temporal Features
  • Extracting date components
  • Seasonality and trend decomposition
  • Challenge: Temporal features
  • Solution: Temporal features
5. Feature Evaluation
  • Importance and weights
  • Recursive feature elimination
  • Adding a random column
  • Challenge: Feature selection
  • Solution: Feature selection
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Derek Jedamski

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