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Submitted by tyler.j· Apr 18, 2026Data processing and feature engineering

Question

You are building an ML model to predict trends in the stock market based on a wide range of factors. While exploring the data, you notice that some features have a large range. You want to ensure that the features with the largest magnitude don't overfit the model. What should you do?

Options

  • AStandardize the data by transforming it with a logarithmic function.
  • BApply a principal component analysis (PCA) to minimize the effect of any particular feature.
  • CUse a binning strategy to replace the magnitude of each feature with the appropriate bin number.
  • DNormalize the data by scaling it to have values between 0 and 1.

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#Feature scaling#Data normalization#Preprocessing#Overfitting prevention
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