Abstract:
Many Data Science methods are far more powerful and accurate than regression. However, they are often not used because they are “black boxes”. That is, they do not allow for an easy interpretation of the impact of each predictor on the outcome. If you would like to go beyond regression, but need to understand the impact of the predictors, this presentation is for you. It turns out, in the past few years, new and powerful ways to visually represent the impact of the predictors on the outcome have been developed. These allow you to use Data Science techniques much more powerful and accurate than regression without losing the ability to visualize and interpret the impact of the predictor variables. This presentation will give a brief introduction to these simple, yet powerful visualization techniques.