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Published inMar 2021
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Somanath Nanda
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Somanath has 10 years of working experience in IT industry which includes Prod development, Devops, Design and architect products from end to end. He has also worked at AWS as a Big Data Engineer for about 2 years.
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Weslley Moura has been developing data products for the past decade. At his recent roles, he has been influencing data strategy and leading data teams into the urban logistics and blockchain industries.
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  1. You are working as a data scientist for a pharmaceutical company. You are collaborating with other teammates to create a machine learning model to classify certain types of diseases on image exams. The company wants to prioritize the assertiveness rate of positive cases, even if they have to wrongly return false negatives. Which type of metric would you use to optimize the underlying model?

    a. Recall

    b. Precision

    c. R-squared

    d. RMSE

    Answer

    In this scenario, the company prefers to have a higher probability to be right on positive outcomes at the cost of wrongly classifying some positive cases as negative. Technically, they prefer to increase precision at the cost of reducing recall.

  2. You are working as a data scientist for a pharmaceutical company. You are collaborating with other teammates to create a machine learning model to classify certain types of diseases on image exams. The company wants to prioritize the capture of positive cases, even if they have to wrongly return...
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Published in: Mar 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800569003

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Somanath Nanda

Somanath has 10 years of working experience in IT industry which includes Prod development, Devops, Design and architect products from end to end. He has also worked at AWS as a Big Data Engineer for about 2 years.
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Weslley Moura

Weslley Moura has been developing data products for the past decade. At his recent roles, he has been influencing data strategy and leading data teams into the urban logistics and blockchain industries.
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