How to Select a Data Splitting Method

The pros and cons to different data splitting methods and the why behind them.

Zachary Warnes
Towards Data Science
6 min readJul 17, 2021

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Separating the data that you have available is an important task to train and evaluate your models effectively. Here I discuss the different data separation techniques in scikit-learn, choosing a particular method, and some common pitfalls.

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