How to Select an Initial Model for your Data Science Problem - KDnuggets

This post is meant for new and or aspiring data scientists trying to decide what model to use for a problem. This post will not be going over data wrangling. Which hopefully, you know, is the majority of the work a data scientist does. I'm assuming you have some data ready, and you want to see how you can make some predictions. There are many models to choose from with seemingly endless variants.