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Top 10 Data Science Interviews Questions and Expert Answers

Pickl AI

Machine Learning Algorithms Candidates should demonstrate proficiency in a variety of Machine Learning algorithms, including linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, support vector machines, and neural networks. What is cross-validation, and why is it used in Machine Learning?

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Predicting Heart Failure Survival with Machine Learning Models — Part II

Towards AI

That post was dedicated to an exploratory data analysis while this post is geared towards building prediction models. In our exercise, we will try to deal with this imbalance by — Using a stratified k-fold cross-validation technique to make sure our model’s aggregate metrics are not too optimistic (meaning: too good to be true!)