Linear Regression - Data preparation

#1

What does it mean to normalize data?
why is it needed?

#2

hey @devchopra999_11c6416ab7f09bbf,
if you remember , linear regression algorithm makes some assumptions to work.
hence , due to those assumptions only , we need to normalize our data before fitting into linear regression model.

i hope this helps.

#3

does it convert all the data into numbers between 0 and 1?
how are the assumptions related to normalization please explain

#4

Yes. You are correct on this.

#5

please explain the relation between the assumptions and normlization of data

#6

if you know what assumptions linear regression has …
in them you will see that , one assumption is that it assumes the data is normalized and hence accordingly the weights that the algorithm will calculate are updated.
So , for that we need to normalize our data

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