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A Business Lens on Precision and Recall

12/22/23

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Matt Sosna for Towards Data Science on Medium

Practical Applications

Machine learning practical applications and understanding precision and recall.

This post uses the question of “Why is there any spam on social media?” to explore precision, recall, and investment tradeoffs in classification systems. They start by covering different approaches to fighting spam (human review and machine learning) before discussing ways to quantify what we gain and lose when we set classification thresholds. They then discuss the numerous challenges with fighting spam on social media.

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