The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition

15. Ensemble Learning

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to describe ensemble learning and apply different ensemble learning techniques to your dataset. You will also be able to fit a dataset on a model and analyze the results after ensemble learning.

In this chapter, we will be using the credit card application dataset, where we will try to predict whether a credit card application will be approved.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we learned various techniques, such as the backward elimination technique, factor analysis, and so on, that helped us to deal with high-dimensional datasets.

In this chapter, we will further enhance our repertoire of skills with another set of techniques, called ensemble learning, in ...