# very important features, but rarely input

The features are of capital gain and capital loss, but very small amounts of people have one or the other. As far as I can see it may not signify any great difference, though I'm not sure how I would go about even normalising or whatnot these features:

     age        wgt       sex   gain        loss         hpw
0   0.379310    0.119825    1   2174           0         -0.078664
1   0.568966    0.131898    1   0              0         -2.327679
2   0.362069    0.407596    1   0              0         -0.078664


The gain can skyrocket to 100,000 and that is definitely of significance considering I'm predicting whether someone will make over \$50k, though they occur at such a small rate, close to 3-5% that I'm not sure how I could go about implementing them. I doubt imputing data would be a good idea considering just about everyone is on 0 for both results.

Also to note is I have 15 columns total (many more with get_dummies()).

• It isn't clear what you are asking.. Aug 16 '19 at 8:46
• @Mark.F asking how I should approach this data, which if used correctly, could be used to tell the machine whether or not something is 100% possibility, though also considering it only occurs in 3-5% of rows, perhaps it is useless? Aug 16 '19 at 8:50
• This question could definitely be improved: Start with your goal, then list the data in birds eye. Next your idea's, then the question, finally add detailed data or functions. Aug 16 '19 at 10:36
• @S van Balen my goal is max accuracy. Not sure what you mean by birds eye (sorry I'm new to programming), my idea was to come here and ask because I have a lack of ideas, my only idea at the moment is to drop the columns, which is fine but my goal is max accuracy. Question is stated clearly I would have thought, what do I do with these 2 columns. Would you like all the data? I'm not looking for a completed answer, just to push me in the right direction. What functions would you want? All I've provided is a dataset, didn't realise datascience was so focused on the coding aspect. Aug 18 '19 at 22:27