Feature Engineering Fundamentals: Encoding, Scaling, Aggregation, and Drift

A practical two-hour session on Feature Engineering Fundamentals, focused on Encoding, Scaling, Aggregation, and Drift. Attendees work through concrete engineering tradeoffs, review examples, and leave with a checklist they can apply in real team projects.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Feature Engineering Fundamentals
• Apply Encoding in a small working example
• Apply Scaling in a small working example
• Apply Aggregation in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.