Predictive Models on Random Data

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Predictive Models on Random Data
• Website: Data Skeptic
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• Published: 2016-07-22 02:00

This week is an insightful discussion with Claudia Perlich about some situations in machine learning where models can be built, perhaps by well-intentioned practitioners, to appear to be highly predictive despite being trained on random data. Our discussion covers some novel observations about ROC and AUC, as well as an informative discussion of leak