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September 9, 2013
Welcome to
Feature Engineering Studio
• Design studio-style course teaching how to
distill and engineer features for data mining
What We’ll Cover
• The process of feature engineering and
distillation
– brainstorming features
– deciding what features to create
– criteria for selecting features
– actually creating the features
– studying the impact of features on model
goodness
Why?
• Feature engineering is the most important,
and least well-studied part of the process of
developing prediction models