All-relevant feature selection with Boruta, Shiny and R

Boruta is one of the most popular methods for all-relevant feature selection. It's great for data exploration because it tries to find all variables that could have some relationship with target. Another popular approach, minimum optimal feature selection, selects only the minimal subset of features.

• More info about Boruta: https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~ajank/papers/Kursa2010.pdf
• Boruta on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Boruta/
• Boruta.py: https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/boruta_py
• See also MUVR: https://gitlab.com/CarlBrunius/MUVR

Open on shinyapps

https://statsim.shinyapps.io/select/ We are currently on a free tier. The app can be offline if there's no hours left

Run select with R from remote repository

R -e "shiny::runGitHub('select-shiny', 'statsim')" (needs R and shiny installed)

If everything is ok, you'll see something like this:

Downloading https://github.com/statsim/select-shiny/archive/master.tar.gz
...
Listening on http://127.0.0.1:5352

Then just open the link in the browser

Run locally

Clone the repository with git clone then R -e "shiny::runApp('select-shiny')"

Alternatives

Web version based on JavaScript port of Boruta:

• https://statsim.com/select There's another shiny app that also uses Boruta under the hood and supports bigger files:
• https://shiny.gramener.com/varselect/