Questions tagged [preprocessing]
Data preprocessing is a data mining technique that involves transforming raw data into a better understandable or more useful format.
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Correct order of preprocessing/EDA/feature engineering?
I was wondering if I have the correct order of preprocessing/EDA/feature engineering below?
Yes there are nuances and may vary from problem to problem, but am just looking for a general pipeline for ...
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Mislabeled problem with hospital data
I am writing this post to ask or see if someone can help me with this problem in case you may have faced a similar situation.
My problem has to do with a ML tool that I am trying to develop in a ...
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How to infer the following graphs for dimensionality reduction?
I'm dealing with a high-dimensional(1600 features, 9500 columns) binary classification problem. My current accuracy, and other metrics are not upto the mark. I am trying different feature selection ...
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Outliers problem
everyone hope you all are good.
I have a hard time with outliers
First i found some outliers in train set then i capped them and did the same with test set. So when i checked my rsme root mean ...
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Time Series Forecasting for Multiple Store Sales with Simultaneous Timestamps
I have a sales dataset with each store having a unique identifier. The dataset contains daily sales data for each store over a period of around two-years. I'm looking to build a time series ...
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Standardizing my target vs not standardizing
I've heard from multiple sources that it depends on whether I should standardize or not. Most of the time, people would say it doesn't make sense to do so, some would say it's better if I standardize ...
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Data Preprocessing in the Wild?
I am new to ML, NN, and data science as a whole so the following question might sound silly. How can we perform inference when the model is deployed in the wild?
To my understanding, cleaning/...
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Preprocessing overheads in Machine Learning
Meta reports that data preprocessing overheads is fast becoming a bottleneck to machine learning training (https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/19/ml-applications/data-ingestion-machine-learning-...
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Handling Missing Values
I have the following artificial data :
Now I am trying to handle missing values in the age and salary columns using mean imputation. I am using the following code to do so :
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How to train model with data received from different 3x accelerometers sensors?
I want to make a model based on accelerometer data to recognise different activities like running, walking etc. I have a small dataset collected from my target sensor. I found another dataset with ...
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Grouped Time Restricted Demand Regression with value cap
so I am working on quite an interesting regression task that I haven't encountered before.
Our company sells products (steel) in tons. We offer contracts where the customer orders a certain amount of ...
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Image classification of centered objects with convolutional neural networks
Given that I have a set of images that contain multiple objects for which labels exist and the object the image label refers to is always in the center. The objects vary in size. I want to train a ...
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What is the best way to avoid data leaking in timeseries forecasting multiple labels?
I'm predicting crypto pairs volume. I want to increase my accuracy by using one model for different pairs. Question is how to avoid timedata leaking?
Example n - pairs, t- time, m - features for each. ...
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different range of target values in neural network
I am working on a neural network regression code. The dataset includes 14 features in the range value between -1 and 1. while the target variable is changing among (0.000759) to (1100).
The target ...
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Recommended way to embed a text thousands of tokens long?
I've split the text up sections each 512 tokens long and created embeddings for each of them.
I want to combine them into 1 embedding for the full text. How do I do that? Is this even recommended?
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How to handle date columns in a dataset with over 100+ date columns?
Background: I have a dataset with around 85k rows and 320 columns.I have no formal domain knowledge and the columns ain't intuitive as well the dataset is not in a language that I speak or understand. ...
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Data preprocessing
I just want to know how to determine whether to remove the missing values or to impute them with mean , median or mode. I usually remove the missing values but it decreases the size of the dataset by ...
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TensorFlow lite classification model;{1,1,1,3}
How can I initialize and insert images into this classification model; what is meant by {1,1,1,3} according to my parameters it should be {1,size,size,3} please help
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Scaling of categorical feautres
In the context of algorithms that consider the scales of features, I have a situation where some features are encoded using ordinal encoding, some features are binary, and some features are standard ...
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Clustering task: drop or not drop a categorical attribute/feature for which each row in the dataset contains a different value
I am dealing with a clustering task. In the dataset I am using there is a categorical feature and for each row in the dataset I have a different value for that feature (my dataset consists of 1000 ...
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Can I convert a TensorFlow tensor to a CSV file?
I'm working on a semantic segmentation problem. I have saved my images in a tensor of shape (4767, 192, 192, 3) [It contains 4767 images of size 192192 with RGB channels]. On the other hand, I have ...
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How to predict continous values using resnet regression model
I'm making a resnet regression model to predict force plate data using smartinsole data. so my data input is smartinsole data and the force plate is the label. below is an example of my data sample.
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Which preprocessing is the correct way to forecast time-series data using LSTM?
I just started to study time-series forecasting using RNN.
I have a few months of time series data that was an hour unit.
The data is a kind of percentage value of my little experiment and no other ...
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Transform monthly data to the weekly data based on categorical value
I have monthly data like this which is hours:
month,hours
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I have weekly data like this which is quantities of the asset:
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Labelling spectrograms
Currently I'm working on a ML project, just need an information, is there any tool that is present that can load audios file and generates spectrograms as well as an option to annotating/ label the ...
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Problem with the size of test data?
I am working on my thesis, which has two different research questions:
Evaluate transformer models while incorporating non textuel features
Evaluate the importance of data quality in tranformer ...
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Preparing LSTM Network input from multiple files
I would like to train LSTM Network, which should take 5 files as input and predict the 6th file. Each file contains 810000 data points (precipitation values), and each data point indices the location. ...
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How to improve the preservation of the global data structure in UMAP?
I have a dataset, where the features are comprised of points arranged in a regular grid on a simplex. Each of these points are defined as follows: A point $\mathbf{x}$ on the simplex can be ...
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Keras MLP not working
For my degree's final project I am working with Keras and trying to build different AI models. I'm having trouble with an MLP. First I preprocess the UNSW-NB15 dataset and later use it as input in a ...
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Data processing - how to input a pandas column that contains numbers and numpy arrays
I have a pandas df that contains numbers and strings. I use word2vec to convert all the strings into embeddings. The problem now is that these embeddings are all numpy arrays. So now my pandas df ...
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Why is the shape of my transformed data from CountVectorizer 2x2?
I am currently working on a text classification problem using Python and scikit-learn. I am using CountVectorizer to convert my text data into numerical vectors. I have also applied a preprocessor to ...
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Performing imputation only on the test set?
I'm working on a medical machine learning problem. The key challenge is working with small datasets with quite a lot of missing data.
Experimentally, I've seen complete-case analysis (i.e. dropping ...
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Best way to regrid data (polar stereographic to regular)
I have data that's in 'polar stereographic' form and I want to regrid it to a regular grid that matches a grid I currently have. I've seen a few example that tend to be fairly complicated. I'd ideally ...
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How to encode & scale IP addresses as input for ML models
Im currently working on an anomaly detection while making a transaction. As a part of the data that I extracted, I have the IP addresses of the indivduals who made the transaction. Since the IP ...
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Fine-tune GPT on sketch data (stroke-3)
These past days I have started a personal project where I would like to build a model that, given an uncompleted sketch, it can finish it.
I was planning on using some pretrained models that are ...
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Order of preproccesing, avoiding leakage and metrics
I have a dataset with ~40k records and 16 columns (including the target) and I want to understand the correct process behind whole data science proccess.
This is what I did:
Performed an EDA which ...
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Why not decrease the number of filters in each 1-dimensional convolutional layer for spectrogram processing?
In convolutional neural networks, the number of filters usually increases with every convolutional layer. Why is this common practice?
Nonetheless, these networks typically process images. When ...
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Is there a standard order of operations for data preparation?
In what order should I do the following given a dataset:
(E)ncoding of Categorical Variables
(N)ormalization
(B)alancing of data
(I)mputation of Missing Values
(R)emoval of Duplicates/Infinity/...
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How can someone build a dataset for a "propensity to purchase" model?
Ok, this might seem a trivial question for some and it's not even a question, more like a discussion. I read the rules and I believe it's everything fine, so I'm gonna take my chances...
Here's the ...
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Select rows in Orange based on column value comparison
I'm trying to remove some rows from a cardio dataset where the value for the systolic pressure (ap_hi) is below the diastolic pressure (ap_low) which to me indicates a data error. The code I would ...
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What is the best way to whittle down rendundant categorical data?
I'm trying to build a linear regression model in Tensorflow (and preprocessing with pandas) that will help me categorize bank transactions. I'm trying to whittle down the vendor parameter, because the ...
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How can I know the best number of features to use?
I noticed that developing ml models a very important step in feature engineering is adding new features that can explain better the target variable.
Recently I experienced a situation where by adding ...
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What could be the most optimised way to run data pipeline which does calculations parallel
Our current implementation is like an api call and that creates different background threads to execute functions.
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How to treat categorical columns after ordinal encoding?
If encode three categorical variables like "bad", "normal", "good" into 0,1,2, after that can I treat them as numerical values? So can I perform on them MinMaxScaler or ...
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Best string similarity metric not considering word order
I'm sorry if the title is misleading, but I didn't really know how to explain what I am searching for.
I have a dataset containing two columns representing names and surnames of a bunch of people. ...
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Can this task for phrases be called lemmatization?
I want to 'lemmatize' phrases to dictionary entries. For instance, the following collocates can be standardized to the idiom in the aforementioned link ...
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Can I create my validation set after preprocessing the train set?
I have another question regarding the dataset split.
If I have a train and test set can I perform all the preprocessing steps (scaling, imputation, ...) on the training one and then split it into ...
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When is the right moment to split the dataset?
I would like to ask a question about the dataset splitting.
If I have a dataset can I perform preprocessing (imputation, scaling, ecc.) on the entire dataset and then splitting it into train and ...
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Sklearn pipelines, applying transformations to feature engineered columns in previous steps
I am working on a sklearn pipeline for my binary classification problem. The pipeline should perform typical things like downcasting data types, scaling numerical values, one-hot and ordinal encoding ...
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keras model.fit() with data generator error
I want to use a DataGenerator but I get this error.
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