This article is by Alan Jacobson and originally appeared on the Alteryx Analytics Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Analytics-Blog/Innovating-in-Data-Science-and-Machine-Learning-Modeling-Better/ba-p/472421
What is Feature Engineering?
First, before we go too far into all the reasons why we are excited, let’s talk a bit about what Feature Engineering is all about.