Feature Importance of Random Forest vs XGBoost

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Great summary.

I would add that Jeremy’s machine learning course goes into significant detail on this topic in lessons 1-3 and if you’re interested in gaining a deeper understanding of random forest and permutation importance the lectures are well worth watching.

Another treat! Early access to Intro To Machine Learning videos

We’ll be officially releasing a new course (tentatively) called Machine Learning For Coders soon (it’s not up on the website yet). It’s being recorded with the masters students at MSAN. I’ve decided to share the videos with you all as well, since for those of you that haven’t done any ML before, you might find this a helpful additional resource. It uses the same fastai library as our deep learning course, so your existing repo and AWS instance will work fine. Here’s the videos - I’ll update thi…