Metrics, Cross-Validation and Hyper-Parameter Tuning

Machine Learning in Depth Intermediate 4 min read Published
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A model that is “95% accurate” can be useless. If only 5% of transactions are fraud, a model that always says “not fraud” is 95% accurate and catches nothing. Choosing the right metric is as important as choosing the model.

🎬 The 95% trap

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