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Machine Learning Problems

Source: Problem prompts adapted from Ace the Data Science Interview — Chapter 7 (“Machine Learning”) Easy set (Huo & Singh). Model answers, explanations, and charts here are original for this course.

Referenced in 7.11 — watch how the validation-error gap changes as training-set size grows.

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7.1Robinhood

Using “precision” and “recall”, explain:

You are building a binary classifier for an unbalanced dataset (say the positive class is 1% and the negative class is 99%). How do you handle this?

Minimum 20 words. Your answer must include: “precision”, “recall”.

0 words/ 20 min

Meet the writing requirements, then you can open the model answer.

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