Comment by frgtpsswrdlame

I still don't get the impetus or desire to make NNs work better for tabular data. Regression works pretty well and is easy to interpret/diagnose/work with. GBMs work really well (given a few considerations) and is trickier to work with but nothing crazy. When I see all the fancy hijinks people get up to when applying NNs to audio/text/pictures I think it's really cool but also not something I'd want to have to do if I didn't absolutely need to when working with data out of a relational db. And anyways, how much of a benefit could it actually bring? GBMs are already capable of fitting and dramatically overfitting most datasets.