Chapter 8. Feature Selection and Optimization

In software engineering, there is an old saying: make it work first, then make it fast. In this book, we have adopted the strategy to make it run, then make it better. Many of the models that we covered in the initial chapters were correct in a very limited sense and could stand some optimization to make them more correct. This chapter is all about making it better.

Cleaning data

As we saw in Chapter 5, Time Out – Obtaining Data, obtaining and shaping the data (which is often the largest problem in many projects) is a snap using F# type providers. However, once our data is local and shaped, our work in preparing the data for machine learning is not complete. There might still be abnormalities in each ...

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