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How To Select The Right Variables From A Large Dataset?

A Guide To Feature Selection

Seyma Tas
3 min readDec 30, 2020

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What Is Feature Selection?

Imagine that we have a dataset of 1000 columns and millions of rows, how do we decide which columns are more important than the others when we develop a prediction model? The answer is feature selection. By applying some simple and complicated methods…

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