"why, even though machine learning is really awesome and cool and you can do super powerful and interesting things with it – why you should still be skeptical"
Read it!Prediction intervals are commonly used for linear models but are often underused for random forests. Leveraging the fact that a random forest can provide a conditional distribution instead of just the conditional mean makes prediction intervals relatively straightforward to use in this context.
Read it!For each "Data Analytic Iteration," you need to embody the roles of a scientist, statistician, system engineer, and politician.
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