Lecture 14 – Feature Engineering

Presented by Raguvir Kunani

Content by Raguvir Kunani, Joseph Gonzalez, John DeNero, Josh Hug

Note: In this lecture you see the sklearn package being used to fit models. This video gives a quick guide on how the sklearn package works.

A reminder – the right column of the table below contains Quick Checks. These are not required but suggested to help you check your understanding.

Video Quick Check
14.0
Introduction
14.1
Motivating Feature Engineering
14.1
14.2
Applying nonlinear transformations to quantiative features. Incorporating domain knowledge.
14.2
14.3
One-Hot Encoding
14.3
14.4
Imputing missing values
14.4
14.5
Bag of words encoding. N-gram encoding.
14.5
14.6
Feature functions
14.6
14.7
Implications of feature engineering on normal equations
14.7
14.8
Conclusion