Course Content

Data Preprocessing

1. Brief Introduction

Data Types Data Processing Methods Dataset: Test and Training Deleting an "Extra" Data Changing the Data Type

2. Processing Quantitative Data

Data Scaling Data Scaling vs Data Normalization Removing Outliers Removing Missing Values Data Augmentation: Synthetic Data

3. Processing Categorical Data

Methods for Encoding the Categorical Data One-Hot Encoding Ordinal Encoding Label Encoding of the Target Variable Challenge

4. Time Series Data Processing

Data Type Conversion Data Cleaning Stationarity Denoising Train/Test Split & Cross Validation Challenge

5. Feature Engineering

Technique Idea Realization Feature Extraction from Text Feature Extraction from Images Feature Extraction from Time Series Challenge

6. Moving on to Tasks

Challenge 1 Challenge 2 Challenge 3

Deleting an "Extra" Data

The point of data processing, which includes removing “extra” data, is very diverse. That is why we will now briefly review its main steps: processing gaps, duplicates, and outliers.

Dealing with missing values is the first important step

The simplest thing we can do is remove rows that contain NaN values:

Another option is to replace the missing data with the median over the entire column:

If rows with NaN values are not more than 5-8%, then they can still be removed. But if there are many of them, it is better to resort to the imputation method (replacing the values with the mean, median, or mode).

For example, mean imputation is used when working with datasets with a symmetrical distribution, and it can be unstable to a large number of outliers. While median imputation is suitable for data with a skewed distribution.

Mode imputation is commonly used for categorical features and discrete variables with a small number of possible values.

Identification of duplicates in the dataset is our next step

To implement it, we use the .drop_duplicates() method:

Removing non-informative features is the last thing we will consider

A column with too many rows with the same values does not provide useful information for the project. Using the following algorithm, we can compile a list of features for which more than 95% of the rows contain the same value:

Another simple method for removing non-informative features - is to calculate the correlation between the feature and the target variable. If the correlation does not reach a certain threshold (which you set manually), then the feature can be removed. Of course, correlation is used only for linear models. When working with non-linear dependencies, you can evaluate the cross-entropy of a model without and with certain features.

In some cases, even features with small correlations can still provide useful information when combined with other features. Feature selection techniques such as forward/backward selection or regularization methods can be used to identify and select the most informative features for the model.

Task

Clean up the dataset using the above 2 methods on the penguins.csv dataset.

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Section 1. Chapter 4

Deleting an "Extra" Data

The point of data processing, which includes removing “extra” data, is very diverse. That is why we will now briefly review its main steps: processing gaps, duplicates, and outliers.

Dealing with missing values is the first important step

The simplest thing we can do is remove rows that contain NaN values:

Another option is to replace the missing data with the median over the entire column:

Mode imputation is commonly used for categorical features and discrete variables with a small number of possible values.

Identification of duplicates in the dataset is our next step

To implement it, we use the .drop_duplicates() method:

Removing non-informative features is the last thing we will consider

Task

Clean up the dataset using the above 2 methods on the penguins.csv dataset.

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Section 1. Chapter 4

Deleting an "Extra" Data

The point of data processing, which includes removing “extra” data, is very diverse. That is why we will now briefly review its main steps: processing gaps, duplicates, and outliers.

Dealing with missing values is the first important step

The simplest thing we can do is remove rows that contain NaN values:

Another option is to replace the missing data with the median over the entire column:

Mode imputation is commonly used for categorical features and discrete variables with a small number of possible values.

Identification of duplicates in the dataset is our next step

To implement it, we use the .drop_duplicates() method:

Removing non-informative features is the last thing we will consider

Task

Clean up the dataset using the above 2 methods on the penguins.csv dataset.

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The point of data processing, which includes removing “extra” data, is very diverse. That is why we will now briefly review its main steps: processing gaps, duplicates, and outliers.

Dealing with missing values is the first important step

The simplest thing we can do is remove rows that contain NaN values:

Another option is to replace the missing data with the median over the entire column:

Mode imputation is commonly used for categorical features and discrete variables with a small number of possible values.

Identification of duplicates in the dataset is our next step

To implement it, we use the .drop_duplicates() method:

Removing non-informative features is the last thing we will consider

Task

Clean up the dataset using the above 2 methods on the penguins.csv dataset.

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Section 1. Chapter 4

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