Linear Regression is underrated

Hey folks,

Wanted to share a quick story from the trenches of data science. I am not a data scientist but engineer however I've been working on a dynamic pricing project where the client was all in on neural networks to predict product sales and figure out the best prices using overly complicated setup. They tried linear regression once, didn't work magic instantly, so they jumped ship to the neural network, which took them days to train.

I thought, "Hold …

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