What Does Feature Engineering Mean?
Feature engineering is the process of assigning attribute-value pairs to a dataset that’s stored as a table. Attribute-value pairs may also be referred to as features or descriptive properties.
Techopedia Explains Feature Engineering
Feature engineering seeks to identify which variables should be used to train and optimize a machine learning model. The process of identifying and extracting which predictive features will generate the most accurate outcomes possible is what makes feature engineering so time consuming.
