Table 3 A description of Market Features used in the prediction model
From: Exploring investor-business-market interplay for business success prediction
Feature names | Description | Type of feature | Dimension size after encoding |
|---|---|---|---|
Business sector | The market sector in which the business operates (for example Technology, Retail, Finance etc.) | Categorical | Tokenize using Count Vectorizer -480 dimensions |
Top past sector | Calculated using count of top sectors in the past range of founded year | Numerical | 1-D |
Top current sector | Calculated using count of top sectors in the current range of founded year | Numerical | 1-D |
Top future sector | Calculated using count of top sectors in the future range of founded year | Numerical | 1-D |
Funding lrequency | Calculated using count of each sector divided by total number of companies | Numerical | 1-D |