Standardization
While normalization can be useful for scaling a column between two data points, it is hard to compare two scaled columns if even one of them is overly affected by outliers. One commonly used solution to this is called standardization, where instead of having a strict upper and lower bound, you center the data around its mean, and calculate the number of standard deviations away from mean each data point is.
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Python
Instruções do exercício
- Import
StandardScaler
fromsklearn
'spreprocessing
module. - Instantiate the
StandardScaler()
asSS_scaler
. - Fit the
StandardScaler
on theAge
column ofso_numeric_df
. - Transform the same column with the scaler you just fit.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# Import StandardScaler
____
# Instantiate StandardScaler
SS_scaler = ____()
# Fit SS_scaler to the data
____.____(so_numeric_df[['Age']])
# Transform the data using the fitted scaler
so_numeric_df['Age_SS'] = ____.____(so_numeric_df[['Age']])
# Compare the origional and transformed column
print(so_numeric_df[['Age_SS', 'Age']].head())