Understanding machine learning #3: Confusion matrix - not all errors are equal

By datasciencecentral - 2020-12-27

Description

One of the most typical tasks in machine learning is classification tasks. It may seem that evaluating the effectiveness of such a model is easy. Let’s assume…

Summary

  • One of the most typical tasks in machine learning is classification tasks.
  • That may appear to be a good result – but is it really?
  • Negatives - are instances that are more popular in the sample.
  • For example, healthy people (when we are looking for sick ones) or clients who actually will buy our product (when we try to phone them).

 

Topics

  1. NLP (0.13)
  2. Machine_Learning (0.12)
  3. Backend (0.09)

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