4 Effective Ways to Prevent Overfitting and Why They Work

Building useful machine learning models

Overfitting causes your model to miss its target, Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

Introduction

In this post, I will share four practical ways you can avoid overfitting when building machine learning (ML) models and why they are effective.

Overfitting is an undesirable condition that occurs when a model is fitted too close…