Model Evaluation Basics — Roadmap Step & Resources
Enough evaluation literacy to sanity-check whether a model is any good
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Data Science
Before this step
Interview questions
- Why is accuracy alone a poor way to judge a model on an imbalanced dataset?
Study resources
- Confusion Matrix, Clearly Explained!!! (Video) — StatQuest's widely-loved explanation of the confusion matrix and evaluation metrics.
- Model evaluation: quantifying the quality of predictions (Article) — The official scikit-learn documentation's full reference for model evaluation metrics.
Part of
- Introduction to Machine Learning for Data Scientists — section
- Data Science roadmap — the full learning path