Key points about understanding the cheat sheet –
- The suggestions in the cheat sheet are approximate rules-of-thumb
- This cheat sheet is intended to suggest a starting point
- Run a head-to-head competition between several algorithms on your data
- Each machine learning algorithm has its own style or inductive bias
- For a specific problem, several algorithms may be appropriate and one algorithm may be a better fit than others
- It’s not always possible to know beforehand which is the best fit
- An appropriate strategy would be to try one and if the results are not satisfactory, try the others
