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by sgt101 2994 days ago
Model fishing is bad.

You will find a model that looks good on your data. It will not be the model you should use.

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"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

The model I've consistently chosen (Decision Trees) may not be the best model. Need to get pushed outside my comfort zone.

I could put in the months/years like a proper Data Scientist and optimize the model. Or let a magic API tell me the best model. I'm lazy, so I prefer the latter ;-)