2.4.2 - Why Is It Important?
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Define feature engineering in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think about why it's necessary in machine learning.
What does 'overfitting' mean?
💡 Hint: Consider how a model may not perform well on new data.
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What is the primary purpose of feature engineering?
💡 Hint: Consider why processing data for models is essential.
True or False: Overfitting occurs when a model generalizes well to new data.
💡 Hint: Reflect on overfitting's effects on model predictions.
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Given a dataset with missing values and outliers, describe a feature engineering process that prepares the dataset for training a model aimed at predicting health outcomes.
💡 Hint: Think about the steps in data wrangling that can be integrated with feature engineering.
Design a machine learning model predicting sales based on your chosen features. How would you ensure that your features help avoid overfitting?
💡 Hint: Consider ways to validate and improve model performance iteratively.
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