Date and time variables are those that contain information about dates, times, or date and time. In programming, we refer to these variables as datetime variables. Examples of the datetime variables are date of birth, time of the accident, and date of last payment. The datetime variables usually contain a multitude of different labels corresponding to a specific combination of date and time. We do not utilize the datetime variables in their raw format when building machine learning models. Instead, we enrich the dataset dramatically by deriving multiple features from these variables. In this chapter, we will learn how to derive a variety of new features from date and time.
This chapter will cover the following recipes:
- Extracting date and time parts from a datetime variable
- Deriving representations...
