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Machine Learning Explained

A collection of 3 posts
What is precision vs recall, and why should I care?
Classification

What is precision vs recall, and why should I care?

Wrong answers matter in different ways for a retina scanner outside a bank vault vs a cancer detector. This is why you need to understand precision vs recall.
02 Nov 2020 4 min read
What is Machine Learning?
Data Science

What is Machine Learning?

Machine learning algorithms are faced with the same challenge you had as a pupil at school. There’s going to be an exam. The higher you score the better, and you'll be given some exams from the past with answer sheets to study from.
28 Sep 2020 2 min read
Data Science

What is Overfitting?

Overfitting is a common problem in Machine Learning. But what does it actually mean? And why is it an important problem for Data Scientists to overcome?
21 Sep 2020 2 min read
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