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Published inSep 2021
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Mirza Rahim Baig
Mirza Rahim Baig
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Mirza Rahim Baig

Mirza Rahim Baig is a Data Science and Artificial Intelligence leader with over 13 years of experience across e-commerce, healthcare, and marketing. He currently holds the position of leading Product Analytics at Marketing Services for Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion platform. In addition, he serves as a Subject Matter Expert and faculty member for MS level programs at prominent Ed-Tech platforms and institutes in India. He is also the lead author of two books, 'Data Science for Marketing Analytics' and 'The Deep Learning Workshop,' both published by Packt. He is recognized as a thought leader in my field and frequently participates as a guest speaker at various forums.
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Gururajan Govindan
Gururajan Govindan
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Gururajan Govindan

Gururajan Govindan is a data scientist, intrapreneur, and trainer with more than seven years of experience working across domains such as finance and insurance. He is also an author of The Data Analysis Workshop, a book focusing on data analytics. He is well known for his expertise in data-driven decision-making and machine learning with Python.
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Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali
Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali
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Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali

Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali graduated from BITS Pilani, where he studied mechanical engineering, in 2018. He also completed his Masters in Machine Learning and AI from LJMU in 2021. He has authored - Machine learning for OpenCV (2nd edition), Computer Vision Workshop and Data Science for Marketing Analytics (2nd edition) by Packt. When he is not writing blogs or working on projects, he likes to go on long walks or play his acoustic guitar.
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Introduction

You are working in a marketing company that takes projects from various clients. Your team has been given a project where you have to predict the percentage of conversions for a Black Friday sale that the team is going to plan. The percentage of conversion as per the client refers to the number of people who actually buy products vis-à-vis the number of people who initially signed up for updates regarding the sale by visiting the website. Your first instinct is to go for a regression model for predicting the percentage conversion. However, you have millions of rows of data with hundreds of columns. In scenarios like these, it's very common to encounter issues of multi-collinearity where two or more features effectively convey the same information. This can then end up affecting the robustness of the model. This is where solutions such as Recursive Feature Selection (RFE) can be of help.

In the previous chapter, you learned how to prepare data for regression...

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Mirza Rahim Baig

Mirza Rahim Baig is a Data Science and Artificial Intelligence leader with over 13 years of experience across e-commerce, healthcare, and marketing. He currently holds the position of leading Product Analytics at Marketing Services for Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion platform. In addition, he serves as a Subject Matter Expert and faculty member for MS level programs at prominent Ed-Tech platforms and institutes in India. He is also the lead author of two books, 'Data Science for Marketing Analytics' and 'The Deep Learning Workshop,' both published by Packt. He is recognized as a thought leader in my field and frequently participates as a guest speaker at various forums.
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Gururajan Govindan

Gururajan Govindan is a data scientist, intrapreneur, and trainer with more than seven years of experience working across domains such as finance and insurance. He is also an author of The Data Analysis Workshop, a book focusing on data analytics. He is well known for his expertise in data-driven decision-making and machine learning with Python.
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Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali

Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali graduated from BITS Pilani, where he studied mechanical engineering, in 2018. He also completed his Masters in Machine Learning and AI from LJMU in 2021. He has authored - Machine learning for OpenCV (2nd edition), Computer Vision Workshop and Data Science for Marketing Analytics (2nd edition) by Packt. When he is not writing blogs or working on projects, he likes to go on long walks or play his acoustic guitar.
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