Feature and the Gaussian Distribution (classification) I have a question regarding variable following or not a random distribution.
I selected 4 features negatively correlated to the label (Fraud/No Fraud). The notebook I'm taking the inspiration from plotted the distribution of these feature regarding the label. What came out is that my feature 1 (Fraud only) is following a Normal Distribution.
Here are my questions :

Why is it important to know if my feature is following a Normal Distribution ? -&gt; My guess : some models need it for faster convergence or better results
Is there any interest to visualize my features as Non Fraud vs Fraud and compare the distributions ?
If my features are not following a Normal Distribution but are scaled, should I still force them to a Gaussian like shape ?

Thank you very much !
It completely depends on the type of model. Some models need to represent the features with parameters: for example Naive Bayes with numerical features needs to have a way to calculate the probability based on the value, and the most common case is to assume that the features follow a normal distribution. On the other hand whether a feature is normally distributed or not doesn't matter at all for Decision Trees.
Yes, it can be very informative in order to know whether this feature is a good indicator or not: the more different the distributions, the more easily the algorithm can distinguish the classes using this feature.
No, don't change the distribution of a feature (unless you have a specific reason to do so, e.g. based on expert-knowledge for this particular data). Any way you would do that would certainly alter the overall distribution of the data and/or the way the features are related within an instance, so the model would not learn from the true distribution and therefore its predictions on real data would likely go wrong.