Manual feature extraction I
You want to compare prices for specific products between stores. The features in the pre-loaded dataset sales_df
are: storeID
, product
, quantity
and revenue
. The quantity
and revenue
features tell you how many items of a particular product were sold in a store and what the total revenue was. For the purpose of your analysis it's more interesting to know the average price per product.
This exercise is part of the course
Dimensionality Reduction in Python
Exercise instructions
- Calculate the product price from the quantity sold and total revenue.
- Drop the quantity and revenue features from the dataset.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Calculate the price from the quantity sold and revenue
sales_df['price'] = ____
# Drop the quantity and revenue features
reduced_df = sales_df.drop(____, axis=1)
print(reduced_df.head())