Phase 15 · Interview Preparation

ML & Statistics

Model Evaluation Questions

Part of the Data Science Roadmap.

Summary

'Why wouldn't you use accuracy for this problem?' or 'walk me through choosing a metric for a fraud detection model' — testing Phase 7's evaluation judgment against a specific business scenario.

How to Learn This

  • 1Review Phase 7 and practice matching evaluation metrics to different business scenarios.
  • 2Prepare to explain precision-recall trade-offs concretely, with a real example.
  • 3Practice justifying a metric choice, not just naming metrics you know.

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