Combining Multiple Feature Types
Stack text and numeric features.
One Type Is Rarely Enough
TF-IDF captures words, your hand-built numbers capture style. The best models often combine several feature types into one input.
Text and Numbers Together
Imagine a review's TF-IDF vector plus its length and star rating. Stacking these gives the model both word and numeric signal at once.
All lessons in this course
- Beyond Bag-of-Words
- Character N-Grams for Robustness
- Combining Multiple Feature Types
- Scaling and Selecting Features