When an analyst or data scientist builds a prediction model, selecting which features to include is critical in making accurate predictions. This can be a long process, since it typically means evaluating features independently and weighing how much each contributes…
When your day to day job is building models that accurately describe data, much of that work is weighting the variables within the model to tweak and tailor it for greater accuracy. Once a model is deployed, it is commonly kept in service, as is, for long stretches of…
The great majority of data analysis is concerned with discovering relationships in data by plotting it to a line. How does increasing rainfall affect the amount of coffee sold in a convenience stores in the Pacific Northwest? What are the effects of higher afterschool…
