Extract the maximum value from your data using feature engineering. Learn how to clean, normalize, and create features to improve the performance of your machine learning models. The quality of the predictions coming out of your machine learning model is a direct reflection of the data you feed it during training. Feature engineering helps you extract every last bit of value out of data. This course provides the tools to take a data set, tease out the signal, and throw out the noise in order to optimize your models. The concepts generalize to nearly any kind of machine learning algorithm. Instructor Derek Jedamski provides a refresher on machine learning basics and a thorough introduction to feature engineering. He explores continuous and categorical features and shows how to clean, normalize, and alter them. Learn how to address missing values, remove outliers, transform data, create indicators, and convert features. In the final chapters, Derek explains how to prepare features for modeling and provides four variations for comparison, so you can evaluate the impact of cleaning, transforming, and creating features through the lens of model performance.

Learn about the more advanced features of the Python language. Python has become the language of choice of many developers for building all kinds of applications across a wide range of industries, but to fully take advantage of its power and flexibility, you need to master all its advanced functionality. Python is a flexible, customizable language that provides features that other languages support only through third-party libraries or require that you build yourself. In this course, Joe Marini takes you through some of the more advanced features of the Python language. Joe shows you how to write code that is easier to read and maintain, build classes that work just like the ones that are native to the language, and work with some of the newest features of the language itself, like structural pattern matching. If you're ready to take your Python skills to the next level, join Joe in this course. This course is integrated with GitHub Codespaces, an instant cloud developer environment that offers all the functionality of your favorite IDE without the need for any local machine setup. With GitHub Codespaces, you can get hands-on practice from any machine, at any time-all while using a tool that you'll likely encounter in the workplace. Check out the "Using GitHub Codespaces with this course" video to learn how to get started.

Learn about general language features, pattern matching, classes, and records in C#. In this advanced C# course, instructor Joe Marini dives deep into language features. Joe goes over language constructs such as indexes and ranges, literal number improvements, the null-coalescing operator, and two uses for deconstruction syntax. He gives you an overview of pattern matching, then shows you basic patterns, enhanced switch statements, position patterns, and relational patterns. Joe covers object-oriented programming features, including how to work with indexers, override the ToString method of a class, and conduct equality testing. Plus, he walks you through using records to create types that have common default behaviors and immutability.

Learn about some of the most notable features and enhancements packed into the 2021 versions of Adobe Illustrator on the desktop and the iPad. Curious about what Illustrator 2021 has to offer? This course lays out some of the most notable features and enhancements packed into the 2021 desktop and iPad versions of the popular vector graphics software. Instructor Tony Harmer goes over the new cloud documents in Adobe Illustrator on the desktop, which make automatic saving, working offline, and version history easier to manage. He discusses several new features on the desktop and covers a few under-the-hood enhancements. He then digs into the features on the iPad, highlighting new drawing options, tools that previously existed on the desktop and now have a home in the iPad version of Illustrator, and more.

Want to get the most out of Photoshop 2021? Tune in to this course to get Deke McClelland's take on the top new features in the world's most powerful image editor. Photoshop 2021 is a big, ambitious update, packed with automated features, AI-enabled retouching filters, and time-saving innovations. In this course, expert Deke McClelland brings you up to speed with every single new feature in the software. Learn about the new Sky Replacement command, which lets you swap an ordinary sky for a more dramatic one. Discover Refine Hair, which turns a base selection into an impressive hair mask. Experiment with such practical and entertaining new filters as Skin Smoothing and Smart Portrait. Explore enhancements to Live Shapes, including on-canvas controls and a Line tool that draws open path outlines, complete with dynamic arrowheads. Learn how to review changes to collaborative cloud documents with the help of the powerful Version History panel. And that's just the beginning. Check back for new videos every time Adobe releases an update.

Find out what's new in Premiere Pro 2020. Explore new features such as the Auto Reframe effect, motion graphic template enhancements, and support for ProRes RAW. Premiere Pro 2020 is here. Learn all about the new features in the latest version of this premiere editing program. Instructor Rich Harrington starts with the new camera support and export options, which make it easier to work with a wider range of devices and file formats. Then learn how to intelligently reframe footage with the AI-powered Auto Reframe effect, and leverage other editing improvements such as increased audio range and temporal and spatial interpolation on keyframes. Rich also reviews the enhancements to the Essential Graphics panel-the new home of motion graphic templates (MOGRTS)-for text formatting and layer management. Plus, learn about April 2020 updates including ProRes RAW support and Productions. This course was created by Rhed Pixel. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Explore the new features and performance improvements in Illustrator 2020, including freeform gradient recoloring and a new path simplification widget. Illustrator 2020 is here. While it's not a large update, the latest version of Illustrator does offer some new features and performance improvements that will pave the way for future releases-and make your current workflows more efficient. Join Tony Harmer in this short course to review the latest enhancements, including automatic spell check for text, freeform gradient recoloring, a new path simplification widget, and background save and export.

Get up to speed with the most helpful new features and enhancements introduced in Nuke 6, 6.3, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Learn how to work faster and smarter with Nuke, the Foundry's flagship compositing app. In this course, VFX guru Steve Wright helps you get up to speed with the most helpful new features and enhancements introduced in Nuke 6, 6.3, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Steve goes over the most relevant additions in each release, from how to leverage the RayRender node-which adds ray tracing to Nuke-to how to work with the ParticleCache node. Plus, learn how to leverage the SplineWarp node, the Pixel Analyzer, and much more.

Stay on top of the frequent updates to Microsoft Office 365. Learn about the latest enhancements to all the Office apps including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. In this regularly updated course, instructor David Rivers covers the latest features added to Microsoft Office 365 including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, and new apps added to the Office suite. Find out how to use the new natural language query feature in Excel, translate email text from a foreign language in Outlook, rehearse slideshows in PowerPoint, and draft a document with your voice in Word. This course is updated on a regular basis; check back often to get up to speed with the latest features.

Learn about the new features, improvements, and changes in PHP 7, including type declarations, new operators, and anonymous classes. PHP 7 is the first major release of PHP in more than 11 years. This course by expert instructor Kevin Skoglund provides an overview of the new features, improvements, and changes in PHP 7. Learn about new tools to help write smarter code, and the key changes you need to watch for to ensure your existing PHP code works correctly after an upgrade.

Review the core features of Reason 10-the powerful DAW from Propellerhead Software-that have remained consistent over the releases and years. Before you dive into the new and updated functionality that comes packed in Reason 10, take some time to refresh your understanding of this professional-grade DAW's core features. In this course, Matt Piper goes over the areas of Reason that have remained consistent over the releases and years, as well as how they've grown over time. This includes tried-and-true synths, virtual instruments, and interface elements, as well as core areas of functionality that make your Reason workflow particularly smooth. Learn how to create drum beats with Kong Drum Designer, use external MIDI instruments, work with Neptune-an advanced pitch adjuster-and more.

Find out what's new in Premiere Pro 2021. Explore new features such as the Auto Reframe effect, motion graphic template enhancements, and support for ProRes RAW. Premiere Pro 2021 is here. Learn all about the new features in the latest version of this premiere editing program. Instructor Rich Harrington starts with the new camera support and export options, which make it easier to work with a wider range of devices and file formats. Then learn how to intelligently reframe footage with the AI-powered Auto Reframe effect, and leverage other editing improvements such as increased audio range and temporal and spatial interpolation on keyframes. Rich also reviews the enhancements to the Essential Graphics panel-the new home of motion graphic templates (MOGRTS)-for text formatting and layer management. This course was created by Rhed Pixel. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.