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Automated vs Manual Feature Engineering Comparison. Implemented using Featuretools.
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-automated-feature-engineering-will-change-the-way-you-do-machine-learning-5c15bf188b96
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How can I use featuretools with only one table? #7

Closed xuzhang5788 closed 5 years ago

xuzhang5788 commented 5 years ago

If I have a dataset with only one table, how to use featuretools? If the whole features are all Continuous Numeric Data, is the featuretools still useful? Many thanks.

WillKoehrsen commented 5 years ago

This is probably a better question for Stack Overflow (tagged with Featuretools so we see it!). The Retail Spending Notebook shows how to use Featuretools with only a single table by normalizing entities from the table.

Another example of using Featuretools for a single table can be found in this Kaggle Kernel: Featuretools for Good. Featuretools is still useful even when you can't normalize entities because you can still apply transform primitives to the table which act on a single or multiple columns in one table.