Generalized Additive Model (GAM)...

Hey everyone! Quick question: do experienced data folks really dig GAMs? I've been browsing around and saw some chatter about the go-to model for newbies.

So, I started checking out GAMs and gotta admit, they seem pretty neat. But, like, are they a big deal? I'm super interested and thinking about diving into GAMs for my master's thesis, especially with imbalanced datasets.

big big deal browsing data datascience deal generalized hey question thinking