Abstract: Automated data analytics techniques for non-tabular data sets may include methods and systems for (1) automatically developing models that perform tasks in the domains of computer vision, audio processing, speech processing, text processing, or natural language processing; (2) automatically developing models that analyze heterogeneous data sets containing image data and non-image data, and/or heterogeneous data sets containing tabular data and non-tabular data; (3) determining the importance of an image feature with respect to a modeling task, (4) explaining the value of a modeling target based at least in part on an image feature, and (5) detecting drift in image data. In some cases, multi-stage models may be developed, wherein a pre-trained feature extraction model extracts low-, mid-, high-, and/or highest-level features of non-tabular data, and a data analytics models uses those features (or features derived therefrom) to perform a data analytics task.