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Explainable AI: Feature Importance, PDP, SHAP

Three tools answering three different questions. Using the wrong one gives a confidently wrong answer.

Level
Intermediate
Lessons
1
Total time
22 min
Simulations
3
Included in Introduction to Machine Learning · $9
Tools you'll use
  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • pandas
  • NumPy
Skills
  • SHAP
  • Permutation importance
  • Partial dependence
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What you will be able to do

  • Explain an individual prediction with SHAP
  • Measure feature importance with permutation importance
  • Read a PDP without inferring causation

Syllabus

1 lesson · 22 min

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Every lesson in Introduction to Machine Learning
  1. Three Questions, Three Tools

    22 min

    Which features matter? What shape is the effect? Why was this applicant rejected? Three questions, and no single tool answers all three.

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