{"product_id":"9781617299797","title":"Feature Engineering Bookcamp","description":"\u003cb\u003eDeliver huge improvements to your machine learning pipelines without spending hours fine-tuning parameters! This book’s practical case-studies reveal feature engineering techniques that upgrade your data wrangling—and your ML results.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFeature Engineering Bookcamp\u003c\/i\u003e you will learn how to:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e    Identify and implement feature transformations for your data\u003cbr\u003e     Build powerful machine learning pipelines with unstructured data like text and images\u003cbr\u003e     Quantify and minimize bias in machine learning pipelines at the data level\u003cbr\u003e     Use feature stores to build real-time feature engineering pipelines\u003cbr\u003e     Enhance existing machine learning pipelines by manipulating the input data\u003cbr\u003e     Use state-of-the-art deep learning models to extract hidden patterns in data\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFeature Engineering Bookcamp\u003c\/i\u003e guides you through a collection of projects that give you hands-on practice with core feature engineering techniques. You’ll work with feature engineering practices that speed up the time it takes to process data and deliver real improvements in your model’s performance. This instantly-useful book skips the abstract mathematical theory and minutely-detailed formulas; instead you’ll learn through interesting code-driven case studies, including tweet classification, COVID detection, recidivism prediction, stock price movement detection, and more.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e About the technology\u003cbr\u003e Get better output from machine learning pipelines by improving your training data! Use feature engineering, a machine learning technique for designing relevant input variables based on your existing data, to simplify training and enhance model performance. While fine-tuning hyperparameters or tweaking models may give you a minor performance bump, feature engineering delivers dramatic improvements by transforming your data pipeline.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e About the book\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFeature Engineering Bookcamp\u003c\/i\u003e walks you through six hands-on projects where you’ll learn to upgrade your training data using feature engineering. Each chapter explores a new code-driven case study, taken from real-world industries like finance and healthcare. You’ll practice cleaning and transforming data, mitigating bias, and more. The book is full of performance-enhancing tips for all major ML subdomains—from natural language processing to time-series analysis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What's inside\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e    Identify and implement feature transformations\u003cbr\u003e     Build machine learning pipelines with unstructured data\u003cbr\u003e     Quantify and minimize bias in ML pipelines\u003cbr\u003e     Use feature stores to build real-time feature engineering pipelines\u003cbr\u003e     Enhance existing pipelines by manipulating input data\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAbout the reader\u003cbr\u003e For experienced machine learning engineers familiar with Python.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e About the author\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSinan Ozdemir\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder and CTO of Shiba, a former lecturer of Data Science at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of multiple textbooks on data science and machine learning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e 1 Introduction to feature engineering\u003cbr\u003e 2 The basics of feature engineering\u003cbr\u003e 3 Healthcare: Diagnosing COVID-19\u003cbr\u003e 4 Bias and fairness: Modeling recidivism\u003cbr\u003e 5 Natural language processing: Classifying social media sentiment\u003cbr\u003e 6 Computer vision: Object recognition\u003cbr\u003e 7 Time series analysis: Day trading with machine learning\u003cbr\u003e 8 Feature stores\u003cbr\u003e 9 Putting it all together","brand":"Manning","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46418582700273,"sku":"9781617299797","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781617299797_p0.jpg?v=1765885760","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617299797","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}