Data Science in the Real World

Finding Business Value in Simple Models

How a general linear model succeeded where complex models failed

Elliott Stam
Towards Data Science
7 min readMay 22, 2019

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To this day, the most useful predictive model I’ve seen in the wild was a general linear model. It wasn’t the most powerful model, it didn’t make the most accurate or precise predictions, and the engineers in the…

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