Practice Prepare Data For Classification (6.2) - Supervised Learning - Classification Fundamentals (Weeks 5)
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Prepare Data for Classification

Practice - Prepare Data for Classification

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is feature scaling and why is it important?

💡 Hint: Think about distance calculations in algorithms like KNN.

Question 2 Easy

Describe one method for handling missing values in a dataset.

💡 Hint: Consider how we can keep data instead of losing it.

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Question 1

What is the main goal of data preprocessing?

To enhance model performance by ensuring reliability
To complicate the data structure
To ignore missing values
To increase dataset size

💡 Hint: Think about how preprocessing helps in building effective models.

Question 2

Feature scaling is crucial for which type of machine learning methods?

Supervised only
Unsupervised only
Distance-based methods
None of the above

💡 Hint: Consider algorithms that rely on measuring distances.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

You have a dataset for predicting customer churn with 2000 records where 5% are churners. How would you prepare this dataset for a classification model?

💡 Hint: Consider how best to maintain class proportions while preparing the data for modeling.

Challenge 2 Hard

Given a dataset containing continuous variables, discuss how you would choose between standardization and min-max scaling based on the distribution of your features.

💡 Hint: Visualize or describe your data's distribution to inform your scaling choice.

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