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Why Feature Selection Deserved the Real Credit for Our Hackathon Win

For a year, we credited supervised binning for our insurance hackathon win. But after running four seeds per arm with one shared feature set, the real hero emerged. Feature selection deserved the trophy. It's a humbling reminder that the quiet work often drives the biggest results. If you're curious about why traditional metrics miss meaningful connections, our piece "Discover the hidden connections traditional spreadsheet metrics miss" explores that same theme.