Dec 22, 2025 — 15 min — Platform & AI
Correlation Is a Feature Screen, Not a Feature Strategy
A long-form feature-screening workflow that uses correlation for quick linear checks, then adds redundancy clustering, mutual information, chi-squared tests, L1 models, tree importances, permutation importance, and domain review.
Outcome: Defined a practical feature review loop that prevents teams from dropping useful nonlinear signals or keeping redundant features just because a correlation heatmap looked convincing.