Random Forest beat penalized logistic regression on lead scoring, but overfits time series
mdancho84 · x · 2026-10-12
The author found Random Forest outperformed his best model (penalized logistic regression) on all classification metrics for a lead scoring task — but warns it overfits on time series data and requires careful tuning and stabilization.
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