In our previous post, we discussed what is feature selection and why we need feature selection. In this post, we’re going to look at the different methods used in feature selection. There are three main classification of feature selection methods – Filter Methods, Wrapper Methods, and Embedded Methods. Read more...
If you’ve come across a dataset in your machine learning endeavors which has more than one feature, you’d have also heard of a concept called Feature Selection. Today, we’re going to find out what it is and why we need it. Read more...
Today we’ll be looking at a simple Linear Regression example in Python, and as always, we’ll be using the SciKit Learn library. If you haven’t yet looked into my posts about data pre-processing, which is required before you can fit a model, checkout how you can encode your data to make sure it doesn’t contain any text, and then how you can handle missing data in your dataset. Read more...
When you’re working with a learning model, it is important to scale the features to a range which is centered around zero. This is done so that the variance of the features are in the same range. If a feature’s variance is orders of magnitude more than the variance of other features, that particular feature might dominate other features in the dataset, which is not something we want happening in our model. Read more...
When you’re working on a model and want to train it, you obviously have a dataset. But after training, we have to test the model on some test dataset. For this, you’ll a dataset which is different from the training set you used earlier. Read more...
Most often than not, you’ll encounter a dataset in your data science projects where you’ll have missing data in at least one column. In some cases, you can just ignore that row by taking it out of the dataset. But that’ll not be the case always. Read more...
If you’re new to Machine Learning, you might get confused between these two – Label Encoder and One Hot Encoder. These two encoders are parts of the SciKit Learn library in Python, and they are used to convert categorical data, or text data, into numbers, which our predictive models can better understand. Read more...