Step 3: Multiply the eigenvector matrix and its transposition (in python, we can use @ as an operator, called __matmul__

To end this post, I would be giving an exercise for you to implement as I think it might clear some concepts for you. Create a class that lets you manage 3d objects(sphere and cube) with volumes and surface areas. The basic boilerplate code is given below:

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As a data scientist in the applied, commercial world, the word best is always a weasel word intended to test your business awareness. One of the tell-tale signs of a greener data scientist is whether they’re thinking about the best business outcome vs. the best machine learning model. ‘Best’ is a balance of ‘what candy elements drive the highest satisfaction/enjoyment?’ and ‘what candy elements drive the highest price?’ We’re basically trying to find a balance between

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Step 2: Create orthogonal predictors using eigenvectors and eigenvalues on the correlation matrix, creating a diagonal matrix of the square root of eigenvalues. This gets around the issue of multi-collinearity. Note the python tricks for getting the diagonal indices.

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In our candy problem, if we build an OLS regression to predict the winning-ness of a candy-bar, and we change the units from grams to pounds, we would get a much higher coefficient. The volume didn’t change anything besides units. The argument here might be made that you can standardize your variables, such as normalizing to 0 mean and unit variance. Still yet, with normalization, you may have an issue of collinearity — if predictors are linearly dependent or highly correlated, the OLS becomes unstable, which will be true even when the independent variables are standardized.

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However, looking at the equation for a linear regression, we see a pretty significant problem. Remember: an OLS regression coefficient tells us whether an increase in the independent variable correlates to an increase in the mean of the dependent variable (and vice versa for negative). But it’s measure of magnitude.

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This tutorial walks through doing ‘key driver’ analysis in python using the proper statistical tools, breaking away from the FiveThirtyEight methodology. Along the way, I explain 1) why data scientists and product strategists should trust my numbers more, and 2) how to communicate those results in a way that gains that trust (see my candy dashboard).

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We have multiple steps involved, and rather than demonstrate in notation, I’ll walk through a python script that you’ll be able to use (please credit this post if you use this verbatim or spin-off your own version!) I’m assuming that at this point you’ve done your EDA and manipulations necessary to build a logically and mathematically sound model.

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Relative weight analysis relies on the decomposition of R2 to assign importance to each predictor. Where intercorrelations between independent variables make it near impossible to take standardized regression weights as measure of importance, RWA solves this problem by creating predictors that are orthogonal to one another and regressing on these without the effects of multicollinearity. They are then transformed back to the metric of the original predictors.

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I am going to be writing more of such posts in the future too. Let me know what you think about the series. Follow me up at Medium or Subscribe to my blog to be informed about them. As always, I welcome feedback and constructive criticism and can be reached on Twitter @mlwhiz.

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I hope this has been useful for you to understand classes. There is still so much to classes that remain that I would cover in my next post on magic methods. Stay Tuned. Also, to summarize, in this post, we learned about OOP and creating classes along with the various fundamentals of OOP:

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Here, we’ll implement code that will tell us how much each feature/independent variable contributes to criterion variance (R2). In its raw form, Relative Weight Analysis returns raw importance scores whose sum equals to the overall R2 of a model; it’s normalized form allows us to say “Feature X accounts for Z% of variance in target variable Y.” Or, more concretely,

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FiveThirtyEight builds a multiple regression, including all possible features of a candy captured in their data set. Importance is abstracted from the coefficients of the linear regression, using the P-value of the dimension to define whether we can take it as reliable.

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In a Data Science interview a year ago, I was challenged to use a small data set from our friends at FiveThirtyEight to suggest how best to design a good-selling candy. “Based on ‘market research’ you see here,” the prompt gestured, “advise the product design team on the best features of a candy that we can sell alongside brand-name candies.”