An Introduction to Preprocessing Data for Machine Learning

Understand how and when to apply common preprocessing techniques

Rebecca Vickery
Towards Data Science
9 min readAug 30, 2022

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Machine learning algorithms learn patterns that exist in a set of features and use these patterns to predict a given target variable for new unknown data. The resulting trained model is essentially a mathematical function that successfully maps the values of…

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