Hands On: Weighty Decisions

Change the classification program to print the weights after training. You’ll see four weights: the first weight is the bias, and the others map to the input variables in Roberto’s examples. You’ll see that some weights are larger than others, and some might even be negative.

What do those numbers tell us? Which of the columns in Roberto’s file has the biggest impact on the likelihood of a neighbor calling the police?

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