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Feature Selection
Brock TubreINSTRUCTOR
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Feature SelectionFEATURE SELECTION
Feature SelectionSelecting the most relevant features from your data to prevent over-complicating the analysis, resolving potential inaccuracies, and removes irrelevant features or repeated information.
Deciding what to keep and what to get rid of.
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ID age fur_color born_month born_month_num breed trick_learned
1 2 brown July 7 terrier 0
2 4 white August 8 shepard 1
3 3 golden June 6 terrier 1
4 7 brown September 8 collie 1
5 2 black June 6 retriever 0
6 6 black May 5 collie 1
Feature Selection ExampleFEATURE SELECTION
ProblemCan old dogs learn new tricks?
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ID age fur_color born_month born_month_num breed trick_learned
1 2 brown July 7 terrier 0
2 4 white August 8 shepard 1
3 3 golden June 6 terrier 1
4 7 brown September 8 collie 1
5 2 black June 6 retriever 0
6 6 black May 5 collie 1
Feature Selection ExampleFEATURE SELECTION
ProblemCan old dogs learn new tricks?
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ID age fur_color born_month born_month_num breed trick_learned
1 2 brown July 7 terrier 0
2 4 white August 8 shepard 1
3 3 golden June 6 terrier 1
4 7 brown September 8 collie 1
5 2 black June 6 retriever 0
6 6 black May 5 collie 1
Feature Selection ExampleFEATURE SELECTION
ProblemCan old dogs learn new tricks?
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Feature Selection ExampleFEATURE SELECTION
ProblemCan old dogs learn new tricks?
ID age fur_color born_month born_month_num breed trick_learned
1 2 brown July 7 terrier 0
2 4 white August 8 shepard 1
3 3 golden June 6 terrier 1
4 7 brown September 8 collie 1
5 2 black June 6 retriever 0
6 6 black May 5 collie 1
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Feature Selection ExampleFEATURE SELECTION
ProblemCan old dogs learn new tricks?
ID age fur_color born_month born_month_num breed trick_learned
1 2 brown July 7 terrier 0
2 4 white August 8 shepard 1
3 3 golden June 6 terrier 1
4 7 brown September 8 collie 1
5 2 black June 6 retriever 0
6 6 black May 5 collie 1
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Feature Selection ExampleFEATURE SELECTION
ProblemCan old dogs learn new tricks?
ID age fur_color born_month born_month_num breed trick_learned
1 2 brown July 7 terrier 0
2 4 white August 8 shepard 1
3 3 golden June 6 terrier 1
4 7 brown September 8 collie 1
5 2 black June 6 retriever 0
6 6 black May 5 collie 1
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Feature selection is an intuitive step humans take to reduce the number
of features.
Feature SelectionFEATURE SELECTION
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Principle Component Analysis (PCA)An unsupervised learning algorithm that reduces the number of features while still retaining as much information as possible.
Reduces the total number of features in a dataset.
Principle Component Analysis (PCA)FEATURE SELECTION
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Feature Selection Use CaseFEATURE SELECTION
Problem Technique Why
Data is too large due to the large number of features Principle Component Analysis (PCA) Algorithm that reduces total
number of features
Useless features that do not help solve ML problem Feature Selection Remove features that do not
help solve the problem