6 Types of “Feature Importance” Any Data Scientist Should Know

A complete guide to “feature importance”, one of the most useful (and yet slippery) concepts in ML

Samuele Mazzanti
Towards Data Science
12 min readDec 28, 2021

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Feature importance is a fundamental concept for Machine Learning practitioners.

Due to its simplicity and intuitiveness, this indicator is not only constantly monitored…

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