Before you try any sort of ML, explore your data [1, 2]. Exploratory data analysis may very well tell you that there is absolutely no point in making a fancy pr

Before you try any sort of ML, explore your data [1, 2]. Exploratory data analysis may very well tell you that there is absolutely no point in making a fancy predictive model at all. If a few heuristics get you 90% of the way to an optimal solution, then don't even bother to start on machine learning, unless that last 10% is going to provide significant value. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis [2] From one of my mentors: http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practical-advice-for-analysis-of-large.html http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practical...