Feature engineering uses domain knowledge to select and transform accurate variables from raw data when creating a predictive model with the help of statistical modeling or machine learning. It intends to enhance the performance of machine learning algorithms.
Feature engineering is a vital step in machine learning, as we have seen, and it refers to designing artificial components into an algorithm. That algorithm then uses these features to improve its performance. And one thing you need to know is that data scientists spend a lot of their time with the data. And it becomes critical to make accurate models.
Let’s see what exactly feature engineering is. Feature engineering is the processing steps that transform raw data into features used in machine learning algorithms. For example, as predictive models. These models consist of predictor variables, and it is used during the part of different engineering processes. Feature engineering in machine learning contains four steps: feature selection, feature extraction, feature creation, and transformations.
This Feature Engineering Work is Based on Three Steps:
Data Preparation: This Process involves consolidating or collecting raw data from various sources into a standardized format for use in a model. Data preparation will help clean, load, augment, and merge data.
Exploratory analysis: this process is used to identify and summarise the essential characteristics in a data set through data analysis. Data science experts use data visualization to understand better how to manipulate data sources and determine which statistical techniques are more accurate for data analysis. And also choose the right features for the model.
Benchmark: This process sets a baseline standard for relevance to which all the variables are compared. This process reduces the rate of problems or errors and improves a model’s predictability. Therefore, data scientists with business users and domain expertise perform testing experimentation and optimization metrics for benchmarking.
