contents

 

front matter

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

about the author

about the cover illustration

1 Introduction to feature engineering

1.1 What is feature engineering, and why does it matter?

Who needs feature engineering?

What feature engineering cannot do

Great data, great models

1.2 The feature engineering pipeline

The machine learning pipeline

1.3 How this book is organized

The five types of feature engineering

A brief overview of this book’s case studies

2 The basics of feature engineering

2.1 Types of data

Structured data

Unstructured data

2.2 The four levels of data

Qualitative data vs. quantitative data