Is F1-Score Really Better than Accuracy?

What’s the cost of being wrong (and the gain of being right) according to different metrics

Samuele Mazzanti
Towards Data Science
10 min readApr 18, 2023

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If you google “What metric is better, accuracy or F1-score?” you will probably find an answer like:

“If your dataset is unbalanced, forget accuracy and go for F1-score.”

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