The Intuition Behind the ROC Plot

Unpacking the mystery of how the ROC or similar plots can be used to evaluate binary classifiers

What does ROC have to do with billiards? Read on… Photo from Unsplash

In a previous post, I talked about the bias-variance trade-off. There are a few such trade-offs in data science and it’s important to be aware of them both in order to build intuition and because they can have important practical consequences. So in this post, I want to talk …

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