Intro to Feature Selection Methods for Data Science

A guide to making data more manageable

Madeline McCombe
Towards Data Science
11 min readMay 24, 2019

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Authored by: Ryan Farmar, Ning Han, Madeline McCombe

Photo by Eugenio Mazzone on Unsplash

What is feature selection?

Well, let’s start by defining what a feature is. A feature is an X variable in your dataset, most often defined by a column. Many datasets nowadays can have 100+…

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