Good Feature Building Techniques - Tricks for Kaggle - My Kaggle Code Repository

Often times it happens that we fall short of creativity. And creativity is one of the basic ingredients of what we do. Creating features needs creativity. So here is the list of ideas I gather in day to day life, where people have used creativity to get great results on Kaggle leaderboards.

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This post is inspired by a Kernel on Kaggle written by Beluga, one of the top Kagglers, for a knowledge based competition .

Some of the techniques/tricks I am sharing have been taken directly from that kernel so you could take a look yourself. Otherwise stay here and read on.

1. Don’t try predicting the future when you don’t have to:

If both training/test comes from the same timeline, we can get really crafty with features. Although this is a case with Kaggle only, w…