ROC Curve explained using a COVID-19 hypothetical example: Binary & Multi-Class Classification tutorial

In this post, I clearly explain what a ROC curve is and how to read it. I use a COVID-19 example to make my point and I also speak about the confusion matrix. Finally, I provide Python code for plotting the ROC and confusion matrix from multi-class classification cases.

Serafeim Loukas, PhD
Towards Data Science
11 min readJun 10, 2020

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