What we can Learn from Black-box Models

Data exploration and knowledge generation using non-linear models

Conor O'Sullivan
Towards Data Science
11 min readJul 25, 2022

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Black-box models can automatically model complex relationships. Capturing these trends in data is what increases their accuracy compared to linear models.

Yet, accuracy is only one of the benefits.

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