Title: Standardize A Feature
Slug: standardize_a_feature
Summary: How to standardize a feature for machine learning in Python.
Date: 2016-09-06 12:00
Category: Machine Learning
Tags: Preprocessing Structured Data
Authors: Chris Albon

Preliminaries



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# Load libraries
from sklearn import preprocessing
import numpy as np

Create Feature



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# Create feature
x = np.array([[-500.5], 
              [-100.1], 
              [0], 
              [100.1], 
              [900.9]])

Standardize Feature



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# Create scaler
scaler = preprocessing.StandardScaler()

# Transform the feature
standardized = scaler.fit_transform(x)

# Show feature
standardized









    Out[3]:





array([[ 0.        ],
       [ 0.28571429],
       [ 0.35714286],
       [ 0.42857143],
       [ 1.        ]])