# Tricks and tips for feature engineering

DevFeed: [Tricks and tips for feature engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tricks-and-tips-for-feature-engineering-27897.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clevertap.com/blog/tricks-and-tips-for-feature-engineering/>)

Author: Mrinal Parekh

Published: 2016-07-20T18:32:44Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [CleverTap](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clevertap.md>)

Topics: [Feature Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/feature-engineering.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [ai-and-ml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-and-ml.md>), [ai-and-ml-data-and-analytics-data-insights-engineering-data-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-and-ml-data-and-analytics-data-insights-engineering-data-science.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-and-analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-and-analytics.md>), [data-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-insights.md>), [data-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-science.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [feature-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature-engineering.md>), [tips](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tips.md>), [tricks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tricks.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains feature engineering as the creation of meaningful new input variables from existing fields for predictive modeling. It describes how domain expertise, reasoning, intuition, or automation can improve data insights and predictive model performance.

## Source excerpt

Predictive modeling is a formula that transforms a list of input fields or variables into some output of interest. Feature The post Tricks and tips for feature engineering first appeared on CleverTap.