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Predictive Analytics in Commerce
Jorge Mantilla
23 Apr 2016, 08:15 PM
Data preparation / Wrap up
Follow the same steps as Nienke did to prepare your dataset. Can you name all the steps you should undertake to prepare your data?
Data Preparation Steps
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- Inspect the structure of the dataset and understand it
- Transform the relevant variables with several levels into dummy variables
- Treat the cases in which there might be missing values in your dataset depending on their relevance for the task at hand
- Split your dataset in two, a train dataset and a validation dataset
Looks like you fully understood this step! I hope you will also understand the next steps and build a great model. Good luck!