10 Sklearn Treasure Features Overlooked By 99% of Online Courses
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Bex T.
Originally published on Towards AI.
Buried in the docs. Waiting to be found.

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I’ve written more than two dozen articles on Sklearn, but it hasn’t always been my favorite library. In fact, because of a terrible online course I took, I hated it in the beginning.
But eventually, I spent so much time on it that I ended up scouring its documentation and user guide more than anyone, maybe except the people who wrote them.
During all those hours, I found so many neat features of the library that online courses were too lazy to teach. My popular first compilation of those features focused more on tricks for rare edge cases.
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