Normalize

How it is used

In modelling you normalize features so that no single one dominates; in reporting you normalize by population or user count ('per 1,000 users'). The British spelling is 'normalise' and the noun is normalization.

Example sentences

1. We normalized the sales figures by store size, so small shops can be compared with large ones.

2. Normalize the features before you run k-means.

Common collocations

• normalize the data
• normalize by population
• normalized score
• min-max normalization

Related terms

• feature engineeringThe work of creating new input variables from raw data to help a model learn, for example turning a date of birth into an age or counting a customer's purchases.
• data wranglingThe work of turning messy raw data into a clean, well-structured form for analysis, including reshaping, merging, filtering and fixing formats.
• clusteringAn unsupervised task that groups similar items together without predefined labels, for example sorting customers into segments by how they shop.
• schemaThe structure of a database: its tables, columns, data types, keys and relationships. In some products it is also a named group of tables inside a database.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• normalize · Data Science & Analytics

More terms: Machine Learning and Data Processing

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• model
• dataset
• training data
• label
• train
• supervised learning
• neural network
• deep learning
• loss function
• overfitting