Courage to Learn ML: A Deeper Dive into F1, Recall, Precision, and ROC Curves

F1 Score: Your Key Metric for Imbalanced Data — But Do You Really Know Why?

Amy Ma
Towards Data Science
12 min readDec 17, 2023

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We’ll use the analogy of sorting laundry to illustrate the core concepts of recall and precision; Photo by Ace Maxwell on Unsplash

Welcome back to our journey with the ‘Courage to Learn ML’ series. In this session, we’re exploring the nuanced world of metrics. Many resources introduce these metrics or delve into their mathematical…

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