“Isolation Forest”: The Anomaly Detection Algorithm Any Data Scientist Should Know

Anomaly detection through a brilliant unsupervised algorithm (available also in Scikit-learn)

Samuele Mazzanti
Towards Data Science
6 min readJul 4, 2021

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“Isolation Forest” is a brilliant algorithm for anomaly detection born in 2009 (here is the original paper). It has since become very popular: it is also implemented in…

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