The Hardest Part: Defining A Target For Classification

It isn’t labeled ‘Target_Variable’ in your Production Database!

What Is a Target Variable?

A target variable is the variable or metric you’re trying to predict with a supervised machine learning model. It is also often called the dependent variable, the response variable, the ‘y’ variable, or even simply the model output.

Regardless of which term you prefer (or were made to use in statistics class), this is the most important variable in any supervised …

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