=====Forecasting Team Meeting - September 2, 2020===== **Attended: Josh, Keola** =====Updates===== * First time doing actual programming! * Started Section 3 of the course: Data Preprocessing * Topics learned: Importing libraries, importing datasets, taking care of missing data, encoding categorical data, splitting dataset into training and test set, feature scaling =====Problems===== * COVID-19 forced today's lab hours to be online =====Reminders===== * Have to use encoding whenever your data is not in the form of numbers * Make a habit of searching up Python documentation * Make sure you get rid of missing data * Play the videos at 1.5x speed because the instructor is super slow