A Gentle Introduction to Ensemble Learning
Many decisions we make in life are based on the opinions of multiple other people.
This includes choosing a book to read based on reviews, choosing a course of action based on the advice of multiple medical doctors, and determining guilt.
Often, decision making by a group of individuals results in a better outcome than a decision made by any one member of the group. This is generally referred to as the wisdom of the crowd.
We can achieve a similar result by combining the predictions of multiple machine learning models for regression and classification predictive modeling problems. This is referred to generally as ensemble machine learning, or simply ensemble learning.
In this post, you will discover a gentle