Reddit r/MachineLearningAugust 31, 2026
How to assess if there is a strong signal in your dirty data [Project]
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I'm sharing this new tabular data diagnostic tool (Entropic Scree). It can be used to estimate these properties of your high-d, real-world, dirty dataset: The informational volume of the signal (i.e., helps you assess whether the signal is strong enough to survive the dataset's idiosyncratic volume). The overall signal-to-idiosyncratic volume ratio (SNR). The intrinsic rank. Provides an exploratory map that allows for the identification of decoupled sub-networks of variables. The linear sufficie