Students have asked me if it is better to use the same cross-validation plan in each step of an analysis or to use different ones. Our answer is: unless you are coordinating the many plans in some way (such as 2-way independence or some sort of combinatorial design) it is […]
We have a new Win Vector data science article to share: Cross-Methods are a Leak/Variance Trade-Off John Mount (Win Vector LLC), Nina Zumel (Win Vector LLC) March 10, 2020 We work some exciting examples of when cross-methods (cross validation, and also cross-frames) work, and when they do not work. Abstract […]
Video of our PyData Los Angeles 2019 talk Preparing Messy Real World Data for Supervised Machine Learning is now available. In this talk describe how to use vtreat, a package available in R and in Python, to correctly re-code real world data for supervised machine learning tasks. Please check it […]