Can a classifier that never says “yes” be useful?

Win-Vector Blog 2014-03-08

Summary:

Many data science projects and presentations are needlessly derailed by not having set shared business relevant quantitative expectations early on (for some advice see Setting expectations in data science projects). One of the most common issues is the common layman expectation of “perfect prediction” from classification projects. It is important to set expectations correctly so […]

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Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

03/08/2014, 21:20

Date published:

03/08/2014, 12:35