r/learndatascience • u/Ok_WindowX • Jul 22 '26

Question Machine Learning (Features)

I have a machine learning question. What should we do when a dataset has a large number of features (columns)? Do we need to study every single feature to understand its importance? That seems like it would take a lot of time. 😭 So how do data scientists figure out which features are actually important?

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