Explaining The 2019 UK Election Result With Data Science
Using permutation importance to lift the lid on black-box models
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13 min readDec 17, 2019
On September 2nd, Boris Johnson, the UK’s Prime Minister, stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street and announced that he didn’t want a general election. Anyone with an ounce of political nous knew what was coming next.
On the morning of Friday the 13th (naturally) of December, the country awoke to find that it had given Boris Johnson the biggest Conservative election win since the days of Margaret…
