Chapter 2
Basic Feature Extraction Methods

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Categorize data based on content and structure
• Describe pre-processing steps in detail and implement them to clean text data
• Describe feature engineering
• Calculate the similarity between texts
• Visualize text using word clouds and other visualization techniques

In this chapter, you will learn about basic feature extraction methods in detail and also visualize text with the help of word clouds and other visualization techniques.