Machinelearninghasgreatpotentialforimprovingproducts,processesandresearch.Butcomputers
usually do not explain their predictions which is a barrier to the adoption of machine learning.
This book is about making machine learning models and their decisions interpretable.
After exploring the concepts of interpretability, you will learn about simple, interpretable models
such as decision trees, decision rules and linear regression. Later chapters focus on general model-
agnosticmethodsforinterpretingblackboxmodelslikefeatureimportanceandaccumulatedlocal
effects and explaining individual predictions with Shapley values and LIME.
