How to Perform Feature Selection in a Data Science Project

Four methods and a whole process for Feature Selection, with examples in Python

Federico Trotta
Towards Data Science
5 min readMay 16, 2022

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Feature selection is an essential part of a Data Science project. When you work with a (very) large dataset you should always ask yourself two questions:

  1. What do these features represent?

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