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Feature Engineering for Tabular Models

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Problem

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You are working on a supervised learning problem and need to improve model quality beyond basic raw inputs. You want a structured way to create, validate, and ship features without overfitting or introducing leakage.

Question

How do you approach feature engineering in a machine learning project?

Representative Dataset

size·1.2M security-account-day rows, 62 raw featurestarget·Margin call within 5 trading daysfeatures·Portfolio, exposure, cash, volatility, segment, region, timestampsmissing_data·12% overall, concentrated in metadata and sparse event fieldsclass_balance·6.5% positive