Why is Feature Scaling Important in Machine Learning? Discussing 6 Feature Scaling Techniques

Standardization, Normalization, Robust Scaling, Mean Normalization, Maximum Absolute Scaling and Vector Unit Length Scaling

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Many machine-learning algorithms need to have features on the same scale.

There are diffident types of feature scaling methods that we can choose in various scenarios. They have different (technical) names. The term Feature Scaling simply refers to any of those methods.

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1. Feature scaling in different scenar…