SIT343 - Feature Generation and Engineering

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Prerequisite:

SIT232 and SIT220

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

1 x 3 hour seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - online

Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week, weekly meetings.

Content

This unit will equip students with the knowledge and skills to identify and generate features from different raw data inputs (text, image, video etc.) or signals (accelerometer, electrocardiogram, financial time series) to build machine learning models. It will also cover topics including feature transformation, creation, and selections, all these topics are directly involved with classical machine learning techniques and important to build robust and accurate models in data science.

Hurdle requirement

To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must meet certain milestones as part of the portfolio.

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