I am playing with features (input data) to improve my model's accuracy.

If I have a raw time-series dataframe, does feature engineering mean extracting properties or characteristics of my raw data and feed it as input? Or will the algorithm learn these from the time-series itself?

In other words, should I create a column that is comprised of the moving average, or will the algorithm pick up on moving average from the raw data?

Is feature engineering just the munging of independent variables? Or is it extracting features that are dependent on other raw data?

Is this known?

I am playing with features (input data) to improve my model's accuracy.

If I have a raw time-series dataframe, does feature engineering mean extracting properties or characteristics of my raw data and feed it as input? Or will the algorithm learn these from the time-series itself?

In other words, should I create a column that is comprised of the moving average, or will the algorithm pick up on moving average from the raw data?

Is feature engineering just the munging of independent variables? Or is it extracting features that are dependent on other raw data?

EDIT:

Here's another question: If I have a categorical feature, would it be better to have it as a one-hot vector (say, 5 binary inputs), or to have it as one input with range [0,4]?

How does one intuitively know the answer to these questions??

I am doing feature engineering to improve my model's accuracy.

If I have a raw time-series dataframe, does feature engineering mean extracting properties or characteristics of my raw data and feed it as input? Or will the algorithm learn these from the time-series itself?

In other words, should I create a column that is comprised of the moving average, or will the algorithm pick up on moving average from the raw data?

Is feature engineering just the munging of independent variables? Or is it extracting features that are dependent on other raw data?

Is this known?

I am playing with features (input data) to improve my model's accuracy.

If I have a raw time-series dataframe, does feature engineering mean extracting properties or characteristics of my raw data and feed it as input? Or will the algorithm learn these from the time-series itself?

In other words, should I create a column that is comprised of the moving average, or will the algorithm pick up on moving average from the raw data?

Is feature engineering just the munging of independent variables? Or is it extracting features that are dependent on other raw data?

Is this known?

I am doing feature engineering to improve my model's accuracy.

If I have a raw time-series dataframe, does feature engineering mean extracting properties or characteristics of my raw data and feed it as input? Or will the algorithm learn these from the time-series itself?

In other words, should I create a column that is comprised of the moving average, or will the algorithm pick up on moving average from the raw data?

Is this known?

I am doing feature engineering to improve my model's accuracy.

If I have a raw time-series dataframe, does feature engineering mean extracting properties or characteristics of my raw data and feed it as input? Or will the algorithm learn these from the time-series itself?

In other words, should I create a column that is comprised of the moving average, or will the algorithm pick up on moving average from the raw data?

Is feature engineering just the munging of independent variables? Or is it extracting features that are dependent on other raw data?

Is this known?