Why having many features can hinder your model’s performance

The activity of feature engineering can be very useful for improving the performance of a predictive model. However, it could worsen our results if we don’t keep in mind certain principles to avoid.

Andrea D'Agostino
Towards Data Science
7 min readOct 21, 2022

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