Why Is Feature Scaling Important in Machine Learning? Discussing 6 Feature Scaling Techniques

Standardization, Normalization, Robust Scaling, Mean Normalization, Maximum Absolute Scaling and Vector Unit Length Scaling

Rukshan Pramoditha
Towards Data Science
13 min readAug 15, 2023

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Many machine-learning algorithms need to have features on the same scale.

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