Engineering a new column
Leveraging domain knowledge to engineer new features is an essential part of modeling. This quote from Andrew Ng summarizes the importance of feature engineering:
Coming up with features is difficult, time-consuming, requires expert knowledge. "Applied machine learning" is basically feature engineering.
Your job in this exercise is to create a new feature that contains information about the average length of night calls made by customers.
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Marketing Analytics: Predicting Customer Churn in Python
Instruções do exercício
- Create a new feature -
'Avg_Night_Calls'
- that is the result of dividing'Night_Mins
by'Night_Calls'
. - Print the first five rows of this new feature.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# Create the new feature
telco['____'] = ____
# Print the first five rows of 'Avg_Night_Calls'
print(____)