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Feature Engineering

Lesson 3: Feature Engineering

Feature engineering is the process of creating new useful columns from existing data to improve analysis and understanding.

In this project, we created a new column called Performance_Change, calculated as:

Exam_Score − Previous_Scores

This helped us:

  • Identify whether students improved or declined.
  • Group students into performance categories.
  • Analyze factors responsible for score changes.
  • Prepare structured input for machine learning.

Feature engineering helps transform raw data into more meaningful analytical insights.