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preprocessing

/prɪˈprɒsɛsɪŋ/ noun · British & US
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What does preprocessing mean?

noun

The process of preparing data before it is used for analysis or processing, often involving cleaning, transformation, and feature extraction.

Example

"The data scientist spent several hours preprocessing the dataset before running the machine learning algorithm."

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