Introduction: Logistic Regression and Feature Extraction

Get introduced to our topics for this chapter: feature evaluation and logistic regression as a linear model for assessing feature usefulness in modeling.

We'll cover the following...

Overview
- Assessing feature importance
- Examining logistic regression

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Introduction

Data Exploration and Cleaning

(Challenge) Exploring Remaining Financial Features in Dataset

Introduction to scikit-learn and Model Evaluation

Fake News Detection Using Scikit-learn

(Challenge) Logistic Regression and Precision-Recall Curve

Details of Logistic Regression and Feature Extraction

(Challenge) Logistic Regression Model and Coefficients

The Bias-Variance Trade-Off

(Challenge) Cross-Validation and Feature Engineering

Decision Trees and Random Forests

(Challenge) Cross-Validation Grid Search with Random Forest

Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, and SHAP Values

(Challenge) XGBoost and SHAP Explanation for Case Study Data

Predict Frog Toxicity with Python and XGBoost

Test Set Analysis, Financial Insights, and Delivery to the Client

(Challenge) Deriving Financial Insights

Appendix

Introduction: Logistic Regression and Feature Extraction

Overview