September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
12h 2m
English
The estimate of the importance of a feature is a piece of information that can help you operate on the best choices to determine the features to be used. Sometimes, you may need to understand better why a variable is important in predicting a certain outcome. Gradient Boosting Trees, by controlling the effect of all the other variables involved in the analysis, provide you with a clear point of view of the relationship of a variable with respect to the predicted results. Such information can provide you with more insights into causation dynamics than what you may have obtained by using a very effective EDA:
In: from sklearn.ensemble.partial_dependence import plot_partial_dependence from ...
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