Data preprocessing techniques

Data preprocessing is a crucial step for any data analysis problem. The model's accuracy depends mostly on the quality of the data. In general, any data preprocessing step involves data cleansing, transformations, identifying missing values, and how they should be treated. Only the preprocessed data can be fed into a machine-learning algorithm. In this section, we will focus mainly on data preprocessing techniques. These techniques include similarity measurements (such as Euclidean distance, Cosine distance, and Pearson coefficient) and dimensionality-reduction techniques, such as Principal component analysis (PCA), which are widely used in recommender systems. Apart from PCA, we have singular value decomposition ...

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