In this digital transformation era, we have seen the rise of digital platforms and increased usages of devices particularly in the area of wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT). Given the fast pace change to the IoT landscape and devices, data has become one of the important source of truth for analytics and continuous streaming of data from sensors have also emerged as one of the fuel that revolutionise the emergence of IoT. These includes health telematics, vehicle telematics, predictive maintenance of equipment, manufacturing quality management, consumer behaviour, and more. With this, we will give you an introduction on how to leverage the power of data science and machine learning to understand and explore feature engineering of IoT and sensor data.

1. Feature Engineering for IoT
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2. Rise of IoT
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1183457/iot-connected-devices-worldwide/

3. IoT Reference Architecture
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/iot
Sense Connect Collect Process Act
Devices generate events
•Through platform to
application
Insights based on data
•Derived by evaluating
incoming device events
Actions based on insights
•Execute processes and
workflows in the application
DATA

4. IoT and Cloud Providers
1. Capabilities added to the devices
a. Device side processing
• Real-time analytics, edge ML capabilities
2. Gateway to communicate with downstream, heterogeneous devices
3. Cloud services
a. Device management capabilities, i.e. device shadowing, provisioning,
OTA updates, security
a. Stream processing
b. Big data stack
• Analytics and visualization
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Cloud-centric Device/Gateway-
centric

5. Handling Data
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Volume
Velocity
Variety
Veracity
Value
Data
reduction
Data
transformation
Data
integration
Data cleaning
Data
discretization

6. Data Collection
• Data collection can be a significant effort
in machine learning
• Types of Data
• Historical Data (e.g. past weather)
• Generated data (e.g. weather from sensors)
• Manually collected (e.g. observe or visual
inputs at different times of the day)
• Collect data to infer its probability
distribution
• Generate more data from the probability
distribution
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7. Feature Engineering
• Extracting features out of data and transforming them into something
that can be used as a learning model in machine learning algorithm
• Accuracy of machine learning model depends on the quality of data
used for learning
• Good Features => Model learns quickly
• Bad Features => Model doesn’t learn
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8. Features, Samples and Label
date precipitation temp_max temp_min wind weather
1/1/2012 0 12.8 5 4.7drizzle
1/2/2012 10.9 10.6 2.8 4.5rain
1/3/2012 0.8 11.7 7.2 2.3rain
1/4/2012 20.3 12.2 5.6 4.7rain
1/5/2012 1.3 8.9 2.8 6.1rain
1/6/2012 2.5 4.4 2.2 2.2rain
1/7/2012 0 7.2 2.8 2.3rain
1/8/2012 0 10 2.8 2sun
1/9/2012 4.3 9.4 5 3.4rain
1/10/2012 1 6.1 0.6 3.4rain
1/11/2012 0 6.1 -1.1 5.1sun
1/12/2012 0 6.1 -1.7 1.9sun
1/13/2012 0 5 -2.8 1.3sun
1/14/2012 0 16.1 1.7 4.3sun
1/15/2012 0 21.1 7.2 4.1sun
1/16/2012 0 20 6.1 2.1sun
1/17/2012 0 14.4 3.9 3sun
1/18/2012 0 18.3 4.4 4.3sun
1/19/2012 0 25.6 12.8 2.2drizzle
1/20/2012 0 18.9 13.9 2.8drizzle
1/21/2012 0 22.2 13.3 1.7drizzle
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sample
features label

9. Imputation
Categories of missing data:
1. Missing at Random (MAR)
• More data available on a different sample.
2. Missing Completely at Random
• No relationship exists between missing values and
other observations.
3. Missing Not at Random
• There’s a reason why the values are missing and
records should be flagged.
• Numerical
• Categorical
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date precipitation temp_max temp_min wind
1/1/2012 0 12.8 5 4.7
1/2/2012 10.9 10.6 2.8 4.5
1/3/2012 0.8 11.7 7.2 2.3
1/4/2012 20.3 12.2 5.6 4.7
1/5/2012 1.3 8.9 2.8 6.1
1/6/2012 2.5 4.4 2.2 2.2
1/7/2012 0 7.2 2.8 2.3
1/8/2012 0 10 2.8 2
1/9/2012 4.3 9.4 5 3.4
1/10/2012 1 6.1 0.6 3.4
1/11/2012 0 6.1 -1.1 5.1
1/12/2012 0 6.1 -1.7 1.9
1/13/2012 0 5 -2.8 1.3
1/14/2012 0 16.1 1.7 4.3
1/15/2012 0 21.1 7.2 4.1
1/16/2012 20 6.1 2.1
1/17/2012 14.4 3.9 3
1/18/2012 18.3 4.4 4.3
1/19/2012 0 25.6 12.8 2.2
1/20/2012 0 18.9 13.9 2.8
1/21/2012 0 22.2 13.3 1.7
date precipitation temp_max temp_min wind
1/1/2012 0 12.8 5 4.7
1/2/2012 10.9 10.6 2.8 4.5
1/3/2012 0.8 11.7 7.2 2.3
1/4/2012 20.3 12.2 5.6 4.7
1/5/2012 1.3 8.9 2.8 6.1
1/6/2012 2.5 4.4 2.2 2.2
1/7/2012 0 7.2 2.8 2.3
1/8/2012 0 10 2.8 2
1/9/2012 4.3 9.4 5 3.4
1/10/2012 1 6.1 0.6 3.4
1/11/2012 0 6.1 -1.1 5.1
1/12/2012 0 6.1 -1.7 1.9
1/13/2012 0 5 -2.8 1.3
1/14/2012 0 16.1 1.7 4.3
1/15/2012 0 21.1 7.2 4.1
1/16/2012 0 20 6.1 2.1
1/17/2012 0 14.4 3.9 3
1/18/2012 0 18.3 4.4 4.3
1/19/2012 0 25.6 12.8 2.2
1/20/2012 0 18.9 13.9 2.8
1/21/2012 0 22.2 13.3 1.7

10. Handling Outliers
• Removal
• Replacing values
• Capping
• Discretization
• Binning
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date precipitation temp_max temp_min wind
1/1/2012 0 12.8 5 4.7
1/2/2012 10.9 10.6 2.8 4.5
1/3/2012 0.8 11.7 7.2 2.3
1/4/2012 20.3 12.2 5.6 4.7
1/5/2012 1.3 8.9 2.8 6.1
1/6/2012 2.5 4.4 2.2 2.2
1/7/2012 0 7.2 2.8 2.3
1/8/2012 0 10 2.8 2
1/9/2012 4.3 9.4 5 3.4
1/10/2012 1 6.1 0.6 3.4
1/11/2012 0 6.1 -1.1 5.1
1/12/2012 0 6.1 -1.7 1.9
1/13/2012 0 5 -2.8 1.3
1/14/2012 0 16.1 1.7 4.3
1/15/2012 0 21.1 7.2 4.1
1/16/2012 0 20 6.1 2.1
1/17/2012 0 14.4 3.9 3
1/18/2012 0 18.3 4.4 4.3
1/19/2012 0 25.6 12.8 2.2
1/20/2012 0 18.9 13.9 2.8
1/21/2012 0 22.2 13.3 1.7
date precipitation temp_max temp_min wind
1/1/2012 0 12.8 5 4.7
1/2/2012 10.9 10.6 2.8 4.5
1/3/2012 0.8 11.7 7.2 2.3
1/4/2012 20.3 12.2 5.6 4.7
1/5/2012 1.3 8.9 2.8 6.1
1/6/2012 2.5 4.4 2.2 2.2
1/7/2012 0 7.2 2.8 2.3
1/8/2012 0 10 2.8 2
1/9/2012 4.3 9.4 5 3.4
1/10/2012 1 6.1 0.6 3.4
1/11/2012 0 6.1 -1.1 5.1
1/12/2012 0 6.1 -1.7 1.9
1/13/2012 0 5 -2.8 1.3
1/14/2012 0 16.1 1.7 4.3
1/15/2012 0 21.1 7.2 4.1
1/16/2012 0 20 6.1 2.1
1/17/2012 0 14.4 3.9 3
1/18/2012 0 18.3 4.4 4.3
1/19/2012 0 25.6 12.8 2.2
1/20/2012 0 18.9 13.9 2.8
1/21/2012 0 22.2 13.3 1.7

11. Feature Selection
• Select features that are highly correlated
to target
• Pick the most representative features from
existing features
• For selected features, look for sets of
features that are highly correlated with
each other
• In each set, select feature with highest
correlation to target
• Use final selected features to train the
model
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date precipitation temp_max temp_min wind weather
1/1/2012 0 12.8 5 4.7 drizzle
1/2/2012 10.9 10.6 2.8 4.5 rain
1/3/2012 0.8 11.7 7.2 2.3 rain
1/4/2012 20.3 12.2 5.6 4.7 rain
1/5/2012 1.3 8.9 2.8 6.1 rain
1/6/2012 2.5 4.4 2.2 2.2 rain
1/7/2012 0 7.2 2.8 2.3 rain
1/8/2012 0 10 2.8 2 sun
1/9/2012 4.3 9.4 5 3.4 rain
1/10/2012 1 6.1 0.6 3.4 rain
1/11/2012 0 6.1 -1.1 5.1 sun
1/12/2012 0 6.1 -1.7 1.9 sun
1/13/2012 0 5 -2.8 1.3 sun
1/14/2012 0 16.1 1.7 4.3 sun
1/15/2012 0 21.1 7.2 4.1 sun
1/16/2012 0 20 6.1 2.1 sun
1/17/2012 0 14.4 3.9 3 sun
1/18/2012 0 18.3 4.4 4.3 sun
1/19/2012 0 25.6 12.8 2.2 drizzle
1/20/2012 0 18.9 13.9 2.8 drizzle
1/21/2012 0 22.2 13.3 1.7 drizzle
Selected features implies state

12. Pearson Correlation
• Measure of the extend to which two random variables change in
tandem
• Value between -1 to +1
• -1 indicates strong negative linear correlation
• 0 indicates no correlation
• +1 indicates strong positive correlation
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13. Correlation between variables
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14. Feature Extraction
• Analyse existing features to generate new features
• Dimension Reduction
• Reducing a 4D/3D space  2D space
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date precipitation temp_max temp_min wind weather
1/1/2012 0 12.8 5 4.7 drizzle
1/2/2012 10.9 10.6 2.8 4.5 rain
1/3/2012 0.8 11.7 7.2 2.3 rain
1/4/2012 20.3 12.2 5.6 4.7 rain
1/5/2012 1.3 8.9 2.8 6.1 rain
1/6/2012 2.5 4.4 2.2 2.2 rain
1/7/2012 0 7.2 2.8 2.3 rain
1/8/2012 0 10 2.8 2 sun
1/9/2012 4.3 9.4 5 3.4 rain
1/10/2012 1 6.1 0.6 3.4 rain
1/11/2012 0 6.1 -1.1 5.1 sun
1/12/2012 0 6.1 -1.7 1.9 sun
1/13/2012 0 5 -2.8 1.3 sun
1/14/2012 0 16.1 1.7 4.3 sun
1/15/2012 0 21.1 7.2 4.1 sun
1/16/2012 0 20 6.1 2.1 sun
1/17/2012 0 14.4 3.9 3 sun
1/18/2012 0 18.3 4.4 4.3 sun
1/19/2012 0 25.6 12.8 2.2 drizzle
1/20/2012 0 18.9 13.9 2.8 drizzle
1/21/2012 0 22.2 13.3 1.7 drizzle
PCA Analysis
precipitation temp_max weather
0 12.8 drizzle
10.9 10.6 rain
0.8 11.7 rain
20.3 12.2 rain
1.3 8.9 rain
2.5 4.4 rain
0 7.2 rain
0 10 sun
4.3 9.4 rain
1 6.1 rain
0 6.1 sun
0 6.1 sun
0 5 sun
0 16.1 sun
0 21.1 sun
0 20 sun
0 14.4 sun
0 18.3 sun
0 25.6 drizzle
0 18.9 drizzle
0 22.2 drizzle

15. Feature Scaling
• Different scales in our dataset
• Different techniques
• Normalization: min-max scaling
• Values in column bounded between fixed range 0 and 1
• Standardization: Z-score normalization
• Values in column rescale to Gaussian distribution, i.e. show
mean and variance
• Standardization
• Reduces each feature to similar scale for ease of
comparison
• Performed within each feature, not across features
• Shift dataset to origin allows learning models to learn
faster and better
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date precipitation temp_max temp_min wind weather
1/1/2012 0 12.8 5 4.7 drizzle
1/2/2012 10.9 10.6 2.8 4.5 rain
1/3/2012 0.8 11.7 7.2 2.3 rain
1/4/2012 20.3 12.2 5.6 4.7 rain
1/5/2012 1.3 8.9 2.8 6.1 rain
1/6/2012 2.5 4.4 2.2 2.2 rain
1/7/2012 0 7.2 2.8 2.3 rain
1/8/2012 0 10 2.8 2 sun
1/9/2012 4.3 9.4 5 3.4 rain
1/10/2012 1 6.1 0.6 3.4 rain
1/11/2012 0 6.1 -1.1 5.1 sun
1/12/2012 0 6.1 -1.7 1.9 sun
1/13/2012 0 5 -2.8 1.3 sun
1/14/2012 0 16.1 1.7 4.3 sun
1/15/2012 0 21.1 7.2 4.1 sun
1/16/2012 0 20 6.1 2.1 sun
1/17/2012 0 14.4 3.9 3 sun
1/18/2012 0 18.3 4.4 4.3 sun
1/19/2012 0 25.6 12.8 2.2 drizzle
1/20/2012 0 18.9 13.9 2.8 drizzle
1/21/2012 0 22.2 13.3 1.7 drizzle
Small scale

16. Implementing ML algorithm for IoT solution
• Sampling
• Split dataset into training dataset
(80%) and test dataset (20%)
• Build ML model
• Put training dataset to ML algorithm for
training
• Output: Trained model/Predictor
generated
• Test ML model
• Use test dataset passed to
predictor/model
• Evaluate model
• determine the accuracy of our model
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17. Summary
• Data Cleaning
• Impute missing values
• Encode categorical features
• Data Transformation
• Transform and scale numerical variables
• Feature Extraction
• Perform discretization
• Remove outliers
• Feature selection
• Perform feature extraction from date and
time
• Create new features from existing ones
• Feature Iteration
• Pump to ML algorithm to produce trained
model
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18. Give Us Your Feedback
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Day 2 Programme

19. Question & Answer
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20. Thank You!
darrylng@nus.edu.sg
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