Model Interpretation: What and How? Open Data Science Conference

Editor's note: Brian is a speaker for ODSC West in California this November! Be sure to check out his talk, "Advanced Methods for Explaining XGBoost Models" there! As modern machine learning methods become more ubiquitous, increasing attention is being paid to understanding how these models work -- model interpretation instead of just model use. Typically, these questions come in two sorts of flavors. In question 1, we are trying to get a general understanding of the mechanisms behind the model.