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Preparing Data for Neural Tools
15.2. Preparing Data for Neural Tools
Applies to: NeuralTools, all releases
I've worked through the Quick Start and Guided Tour videos, as well as the manual. Can you give me some more specific advice about preparing my data set? How do I select variables for training? How do I decide whether to transform them? What are best practices for data preparation?
Here are recommendations from our lead developer of NeuralTools:
- Timothy Masters, Practical Neural Network Recipes in C++ (1993). Chapter 16, "Preparing Input Data".
- Timothy Masters, Signal and Image Processing with Neural Networks (1994). Chapter 3, "Data Preparation for Neural Networks".
- Jeannette Lawrence, Data Preparation for a Neural Network (undated PDF, via www.archive.org).
- Lean Yu, Shouyang Wang, and K.K. Lai, "An Integrated Data Preparation Scheme for Neural Network Data Analysis", in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 18:2 (February 2006) is available in PDF. This in-depth article also contains a long list of relevant references.
See also: Data Transformation before Training? gives a some brief guidelines.
Last edited: 2017-09-14