Ask HN: Dumb Machine Learning question – how to get insights, not predictions?
Say I have a large corpus of data on, say, esport teams' makeup and performance, along with whether they won or not. (Or alternatively, visitors to a website and whether or not they converted, or whatever.)
I've got about 10-20 different fields describing each team - what heroes they picked, what they did in the game, etc - and then a binary win/loss.
I know how to train an ML model to predict whether a team will win based on that data.
But how do I use an ML model to extract insights about what makes a team more likely to win? Stuff like "if 3 people picked these 3 heroes and then 1 person went to this location on the map, there's a 75% chance that the team wins"?
I can find data visualisers allowing humans to pick through data and look for trends, but I can't find a way to get a machine to do it. And I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious here.
So - is this doable with ML techniques, and if so, how would you do it?
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 10.1 ms ] threadI think you are probably asking for something far more advanced than prediction of a simple numerical model?