The 3 Most Important Basic Classification Metrics

Beyond accuracy

Jeff Hale
Towards Data Science
7 min readMay 6, 2020

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This is the second article in a series to help you understand, use, and remember the seven most common classification metrics.

It’s assumed in data science and related fields that practitioners understand accuracy and the confusion matrix. If you don’t, definitely check out my previous article here. It should help to lift the fog. ☁️

In this article, we’ll dig into the three most important basic classification metrics that every data scientist and statistician are…

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