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Explaining Feature Importance by example of a Random Forest

Learn the most popular methods of determining feature importance in Python

Eryk Lewinson
Towards Data Science
12 min readFeb 11, 2019

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In many (business) cases it is equally important to not only have an accurate, but also an interpretable model. Oftentimes, apart from wanting to know what our model’s house price prediction is, we also wonder why it is this high/low and…

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