ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Feature engineering

Feature engineering is when you use your knowledge about data to create new features that the computer can use to do more accurate predictions. For example, if you have data about a home, like the size and number of bedrooms, you could create a new feature that combines these two things to create one overall feature like "home size score". Then when you use this data to make predictions, the computer can understand that a bigger home with more bedrooms is more valuable.