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The Supervised Learning Workshop

You're reading from   The Supervised Learning Workshop Predict outcomes from data by building your own powerful predictive models with machine learning in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209046
Length 532 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Blaine Bateman Blaine Bateman
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Ashish Ranjan Jha Ashish Ranjan Jha
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Ishita Mathur Ishita Mathur
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Benjamin Johnston Benjamin Johnston
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7. Model Evaluation

Overview

This chapter is an introduction to how you can improve a model's performance by using hyperparameters and model evaluation metrics. You will see how to evaluate regression and classification models using a number of metrics and learn how to choose a suitable metric for evaluating and tuning a model.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to implement various sampling techniques and perform hyperparameter tuning to find the best model. You will also be well equipped to calculate feature importance for model evaluation.

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