I'm working on a machine learning algorithm for the dataset available here. There are 26 columns of data. Most of it is pointless. How can I effectively and quickly determine what features are interesting - what features tell me one way or another whether a given URL is ephemeral or evergreen (which is the dependent variable in the dataset)? Are there intelligent, programmatic Scikit learns ways of doing this or is it simply a case of graphic each feature against the dependent feature ('label', 26th column) and seeing what has an effect? Surely there's a better way than this? Edit: Some code for a classifier that I have found - how can I print out the weights given to each feature here ? import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from sklearn import metrics,preprocessing,cross_validation from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer import sklearn.linear_model as lm import pandas as p loadData = lambda f: np.genfromtxt(open(f,'r'), delimiter=' ') print "loading data.." traindata = list(np.array(p.read_table('train.tsv'))[:,2]) testdata = list(np.array(p.read_table('test.tsv'))[:,2]) y = np.array(p.read_table('train.tsv'))[:,-1] tfv = TfidfVectorizer(min_df=3, max_features=None, strip_accents='unicode', analyzer='word',token_pattern=r'\w{1,}',ngram_range=(1, 2), use_idf=1,smooth_idf=1,sublinear_tf=1) rd = lm.LogisticRegression(penalty='l2', dual=True, tol=0.0001, C=1, fit_intercept=True, intercept_scaling=1.0, class_weight=None, random_state=None) X_all = traindata + testdata lentrain = len(traindata) print "fitting pipeline" tfv.fit(X_all) print "transforming data" X_all = tfv.transform(X_all) X = X_all[:lentrain] X_test = X_all[lentrain:] print "20 Fold CV Score: ", np.mean(cross_validation.cross_val_score(rd, X, y, cv=20, scoring='roc_auc')) print "training on full data" rd.fit(X,y) pred = rd.predict_proba(X_test)[:,1] testfile = p.read_csv('test.tsv', sep="\t", na_values=['?'], index_col=1) pred_df = p.DataFrame(pred, index=testfile.index, columns=['label']) pred_df.to_csv('benchmark.csv') print "submission file created.." Continue reading...