Practice Why Is It Important? - 2.4.2 | 2. Data Wrangling and Feature Engineering | Data Science Advance
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Question 1

Easy

Define feature engineering in your own words.

💡 Hint: Think about why it's necessary in machine learning.

Question 2

Easy

What does 'overfitting' mean?

💡 Hint: Consider how a model may not perform well on new data.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is the primary purpose of feature engineering?

  • To create visuals for analysis
  • To improve model performance
  • To eliminate data noise

💡 Hint: Consider why processing data for models is essential.

Question 2

True or False: Overfitting occurs when a model generalizes well to new data.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Reflect on overfitting's effects on model predictions.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

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.

Question 2

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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