Struggling to mentor junior

As a senior engineer, I'm leading a machine learning project for a client in commodity trading. Our current stage involves exploratory data analysis (EDA) to understand the client's data, create valuable features, and generate insights.

During the EDA, I'm focusing on regression analysis for feature importance. Meanwhile, I've assigned a junior engineer to cluster the data based on feature characteristics. However, mentoring him is challenging due to his reluctance to explore unfamiliar concepts. For instance, he's hesitant to include metrics …

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