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Explain the difference between L1 and L2 regularization in the context of regression analysis, and why we might choose one over the other?

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Interview question asked to Data Scientists interviewing at Bolt, PagerDuty, Cognizant and others: Explain the difference between L1 and L2 regularization in the context of regression analysis, and why we might choose one over the other?.