Lasso and Ridge regression: An intuitive comparison

And how they can help you understand regularisation

Thomas Le Menestrel
Towards Data Science
9 min readApr 28, 2022

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Lasso and Ridge (The Elements of Statistical Learning)

Introduction

When people begin their Machine Learning journey, they often start with Linear Regression, one of the most simple algorithms out there. However, this model quickly shows its limitations, especially when working with datasets that lead models to…

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