Introduction
The secret of effective machine learning
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What you should know
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What tools you need
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Using the exercise files
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1. Review Machine Learning Basics
What is machine learning?
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What does machine learning look like in real life?
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What does an end-to-end machine learning pipeline look like?
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2. Introduction to Feature Engineering
What is feature engineering?
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Why does feature engineering matter?
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What are the tools in the feature engineering toolbox?
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3. Explore the Data
What data are you using?
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Explore continuous features
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Plot continuous features
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Explore categorical features
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Plot categorical features
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Summary of features
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4. Creating and Cleaning Features
Treat missing values in the data
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Cap and floor data to remove outliers
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Transform skewed features
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Creating new features from text
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Create indicators
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Combining existing features into a new feature
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Convert categorical features to numeric
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5. Prepare Features for Modeling
Create training and test sets
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Standardize all features
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Write out three final datasets
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6. Compare All Features
Review model evaluation basics
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Build a model with raw original features
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Build a model with cleaned original features
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Build a model with all features
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Build a model with reduced set of features
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Compare and evaluate all model variations
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Conclusion
How to continue advancing your skills
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Ex_Files_Applied_ML.zip
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