This article on data transformation and feature extraction is Part IV in a series looking at data science and machine learning by walking through a Kaggle competition. If you have not done so already, you are strongly encouraged to go back and read Part I, Part II and Part III.
Continuing on the walkthrough, in this part we focus on getting the data we cleaned in Part III ready for use in the classification algorithm. These steps are often referred to as data transformation and feature extraction.
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