Feature Selection with Hierarchical Clustering for Interpretable Models

Create a short list of features using this statistical method (Python Tutorial)

Conor O'Sullivan
Towards Data Science
11 min readApr 1, 2024

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In industry, you can have hundreds and even thousands of potential model features in your dataset. And, using dimensionality reduction methods, like PCA, can leave you with features that are hard to explain…

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