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Deep feature synthesis: Towards automating data science endeavors

Kanter, James Max, Veeramachaneni, Kalyan·2015·2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA)

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In this paper, we develop the Data Science Machine, which is able to derive predictive models from raw data automatically. To achieve this automation, we first propose and develop the Deep Feature Synthesis algorithm for automatically generating features for relational datasets. The algorithm follows relationships in the data to a base field, and then sequentially applies mathematical functions along that path to create the final feature. Second, we implement a generalizable machine learning pipeline and tune it using a novel Gaussian Copula process based approach. We entered the Data Science Machine in 3 data science competitions that featured 906 other data science teams. Our approach beats 615 teams in these data science competitions. In 2 of the 3 competitions we beat a majority of competitors, and in the third, we achieved 94% of the best competitor's score. In the best case, with an ongoing competition, we beat 85.6% of the teams and achieved 95.7% of the top submissions score.

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Authors
Kanter, J. M., & Veeramachaneni, K.
Venue
2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2015-10
Pages
1-10
OpenAlex
W2182353144
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421
References
5
FWCI
9.85
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Kanter, J. M., & Veeramachaneni, K. (2015). Deep feature synthesis: Towards automating data science endeavors. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA). https://doi.org/10.1109/dsaa.2015.7344858

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