Data leaks can sink machine learning models

When developing machine learning models to find patterns in data, researchers across fields typically use separate data sets for model training and testing, which allows them to measure how well their trained models do with new, unseen data. But, due to human error, that line sometimes is inadvertently blurred and data used to test how well the model performs bleeds into data used to train it.

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