Artificial Intelligence with Python

Computing relative feature importance

When we are working with a dataset that contains N-dimensional data points, we have to understand that not all features are equally important. Some are more discriminative than others. If we have this information, we can use it to reduce the dimensional. This is very useful in reducing the complexity and increasing the speed of the algorithm. Sometimes, a few features are completely redundant. Hence they can be easily removed from the dataset.

We will be using the AdaBoost regressor to compute feature importance. AdaBoost, short for Adaptive Boosting, is an algorithm that's frequently used in conjunction with other machine learning algorithms to improve their performance. In AdaBoost, the training data points ...