The AI Data Preprocessing course is designed to equip you with the essential techniques needed to prepare data for AI and machine learning models.
AI Data Preprocessing
The AI Data Preprocessing course is designed to equip you with the essential techniques needed to prepare data for AI and machine learning models. Raw data is rarely perfect—it often includes missing values, inconsistencies, noise, and imbalances. This course takes you through the full cycle of AI data preprocessing, enabling you to transform raw data into a clean, reliable, and structured format suitable for advanced AI applications.
You’ll explore how to handle missing data, perform data cleaning and transformation, engineer powerful features, and balance datasets effectively. Additionally, you'll dive into specialized techniques for preprocessed datasets involving time series and natural language processing (NLP). By the end of this course, you’ll understand how to seamlessly integrate preprocessing steps into AI pipelines—laying the groundwork for accurate and robust AI models.
Whether you're new to AI or looking to strengthen your data preparation skills, this course provides the practical knowledge you need to succeed in real-world AI projects.
This course is ideal for aspiring data scientists, machine learning engineers, AI enthusiasts, and students who want to build a strong foundation in data preprocessing. It is also perfect for professionals and developers looking to improve their understanding of data cleaning and transformation techniques. A basic understanding of AI and Python is recommended, but not mandatory. If you're ready to work with real-world data and want to produce high-quality preprocessed datasets for AI applications, this course is for you.
Understand the importance and scope of AI data preprocessing in machine learning.
Identify and handle missing or inconsistent data.
Clean and transform datasets for optimal performance.
Apply feature engineering techniques to enhance model learning.
Manage class imbalance using data balancing strategies.
Preprocess time series data for AI applications.
Prepare textual data for NLP models.
Integrate preprocessing steps into complete AI workflows and pipelines.
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Discover the role of data preprocessing in AI, explore different types of data issues, and understand why high-quality input is critical for model accuracy.
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Learn practical strategies for identifying and imputing missing data using statistical, algorithmic, and domain-driven methods.
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Dive into techniques for removing noise, standardizing formats, encoding categorical data, and scaling numerical features.
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Explore how to extract meaningful insights by creating, selecting, and transforming features to boost model performance.
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Understand how to handle skewed class distributions using methods like SMOTE, undersampling, and oversampling.
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Work with time-stamped data, address temporal patterns, and learn time-series-specific preprocessing steps such as lag creation and resampling.
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Prepare unstructured text data for AI models using tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, stopword removal, and vectorization techniques.
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Learn how to structure and automate preprocessing workflows using tools like scikit-learn pipelines and custom functions.
Earn a Professional Certificate
Earn a certificate of completion issued by Learn Artificial Intelligence (LAI), recognised for demonstrating personal and professional development.
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A basic knowledge of Python will help you follow the hands-on exercises, but all key concepts will be explained in a beginner-friendly manner.
Yes! You will work with multiple datasets, including time series and text, and apply preprocessing techniques to them.
Most AI models fail due to poor data quality. This course teaches you how to create clean, preprocessed datasets that significantly improve model accuracy and reliability.
Data preprocessing is the crucial step of cleaning, formatting, and organizing raw data before feeding it into an AI or machine learning model. It ensures the data is suitable for accurate and efficient model training.
AI uses algorithms to analyze, transform, and learn from data. However, before this can happen, the data must be preprocessed to remove errors and inconsistencies.
The goal of data preprocessing is to produce high-quality, consistent input data that improves the performance and accuracy of AI models. Without this step, even the most advanced algorithms can deliver poor results.
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