How to Avoid Being Fooled by Model Accuracy

A visual guide to binary classification model metrics and their proper usage

John Adeojo
Towards Data Science
8 min readJul 7, 2023

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Background — Simple on the Surface

The metrics used for gauging performance of classification models are fairly straightforward, at least from a mathematical standpoint. Nevertheless, I have observed that many…

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