# Feature engineering > A process that involves the following steps:[^1] A process that involves the following steps:[^1] 1. Determining which [features](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Feature%20(machine%20learning.txt)) might be useful in training a model. 2. Converting raw data from the dataset into efficient versions of those features. ## Footnotes [^1]: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary#feature_engineering