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AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty: MLS-C01 Certification Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569003
Pages 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Somanath Nanda Somanath Nanda
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Weslley Moura Weslley Moura
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Introduction to Machine Learning
Chapter 1: Machine Learning Fundamentals Chapter 2: AWS Application Services for AI/ML Section 2: Data Engineering and Exploratory Data Analysis
Chapter 3: Data Preparation and Transformation Chapter 4: Understanding and Visualizing Data Chapter 5: AWS Services for Data Storing Chapter 6: AWS Services for Data Processing Section 3: Data Modeling
Chapter 7: Applying Machine Learning Algorithms Chapter 8: Evaluating and Optimizing Models Chapter 9: Amazon SageMaker Modeling Other Books You May Enjoy

Identifying types of features

We cannot start modeling without knowing what a feature is and which type of information it might store. You have already read about different processes that deal with features. For example, you know that feature engineering is related to the task of building and preparing features to your models; you also know that feature selection is related to the task of choosing the best set of features to feed a particular algorithm. These two tasks have one behavior in common: they may vary according to the types of features they are processing.

It is very important to understand this behavior (feature type versus applicable transformations) because it will help you eliminate invalid answers during your exam (and, most importantly, you will become a better data scientist).

When we refer to types of features, we are talking about the data type that a particular feature is supposed to store. The following diagram shows how we could potentially describe the...

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