Feature Importance of Data in Machine Learning with Python
Last Updated on July 26, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Amit Chauhan
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Feature importance is a technique to know the importance of input features based on some coefficient values. This technique might be helpful in large dimension datasets where sometimes we need to remove input features based on correlation or with dimensional reduction techniques.
Section 1: Introduction of feature importance
Section 2: Synthetic data generation
Section 3: Impurity mean decrease based feature importance
Section 4: Feature importance based on permutation
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