Percentage based outlier removal
One way to ensure a small portion of data is not having an overly adverse effect is by removing a certain percentage of the largest and/or smallest values in the column. This can be achieved by finding the relevant quantile and trimming the data using it with a mask. This approach is particularly useful if you are concerned that the highest values in your dataset should be avoided. When using this approach, you must remember that even if there are no outliers, this will still remove the same top N percentage from the dataset.
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Python
Instruções do exercício
- Find the 95th quantile of the
ConvertedSalary
column. - Trim the
so_numeric_df
DataFrame to retain all rows whereConvertedSalary
is less than it's 95th quantile. - Plot the histogram of
so_numeric_df[['ConvertedSalary']]
. - Plot the histogram of
trimmed_df[['ConvertedSalary']]
.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# Find the 95th quantile
quantile = so_numeric_df['ConvertedSalary'].____(____)
# Trim the outliers
trimmed_df = so_numeric_df[so_numeric_df['ConvertedSalary'] < ____]
# The original histogram
so_numeric_df[['ConvertedSalary']].____()
plt.show()
plt.clf()
# The trimmed histogram
trimmed_df[['ConvertedSalary']].____()
plt.show()