What is Feature Scaling?
Feature Scaling is an important pre-processing step for some machine learning algorithms.
Imagine you have three friends of whom you know the individual weight and height.
You would like to deduce Christian’s t-shirt size from David’s and Julia’s by looking at the height and weight.
| Name | Height in m | Weight in kg | T-Shirt size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia | 1.58 | 52 | Small |
| David | 1.79 | 79 | Large |
| Christian | 1.86 | 64 | ? |
One way You could determine the shirt size is to just add up the weight and the height of each friend. You would get: Continue reading “Feature Scaling”