Statistician: How might you analyze this data

Data scientist: Definitely start with a neural net

Statistician:

Alright, fine, start off with a multiple regression with every possible covariate, look at the t-tests and remove those that aren't significant.
Statistician: have you tried PCA?

Data scientist: no, but I'm using a linearly-activated autoencoder, and that seems to work pretty well.

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