Practice - Why Model Evaluation is Important
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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
What is model evaluation?
💡 Hint: Think about why testing is important in any discipline.
Name one reason why avoiding overfitting is essential in machine learning.
💡 Hint: Focus on what happens when a model learns too closely from the training data.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the role of model evaluation?
💡 Hint: Think about the reason we test anything after learning.
True or False: Overfitting occurs when a model performs well on training data but poorly on new data.
💡 Hint: Recall what we discussed about memorization.
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Challenge Problems
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Imagine a financial institution has a model with an accuracy of 85% but fails to predict 30% of actual defaults due to an imbalanced dataset. What steps can the institution take to improve this model?
💡 Hint: Think about how to address data shortcomings.
You are developing a spam filter that classifies emails. You find that while your model has high accuracy, it's misclassifying important emails as spam frequently. What performance metrics would you analyze, and what actions would you take?
💡 Hint: Recall the significance of precision in spam classification.
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Reference links
Supplementary resources to enhance your learning experience.
- Introduction to Machine Learning: Evaluation Metrics
- Machine Learning: Overfitting vs Underfitting
- Understanding Model Evaluation
- Cross-Validation: What is it and why do we need it?
- Precision vs Accuracy in Machine Learning
- Model Evaluation in Machine Learning
- Understanding the Confusion Matrix
- The Importance of Evaluation Metrics in Machine Learning