The skill of feature engineering — crafting data features optimized for machine learning — is as old as data science itself. But it’s a skill I’ve noticed is becoming more and more neglected.

The feature store is a critical piece of data engineering middleware that links the past (i.e. training machine learning models on historical data) with the current (i.e. running inference on real ...

Alteryx, a publicly traded analytics company, announced this morning that it has acquired Feature Labs, a machine learning startup that launched out of MIT in 2018.The company did not reveal the ...