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From numbers to decisions

Read an experiment honestly, judge a classifier fairly and show the result clearly: p-values, an A/B test worked end to end, classification metrics, chart choice and dashboards.

By Grokem Editorial

  • 5lessons
  • ~25 minin total
  • Beginnerlevel
  • 5topics

Outcomes

What you will be able to do

  • State what a null hypothesis and a p-value are

  • Read a confusion matrix

  • Explain why a 5% threshold produces false positives by design

  • Calculate and explain precision, recall, F1 and accuracy

  • Avoid the four most common misreadings

  • Recognise why accuracy misleads on imbalanced data

Covered

Topics and formats in this path

  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Experiment Design
  • Supervised Learning
  • Charts & Graphs
  • Dashboards
  • Explainer
  • Tutorial
  • Reference
  • Best practices

Learning plan

5 lessons, in order

Each lesson is short enough for one sitting and ends by pointing to the next.

  1. Explainer

    Hypothesis TestingDoneStarted

    Hypothesis testing and p-values without the folklore

    What a p-value is, what it is not, why five percent of tests with no real effect still come out 'significant', and what to report instead of a verdict.

    • State what a null hypothesis and a p-value are
    • Explain why a 5% threshold produces false positives by design

    Grokem EditorialBeginner

  2. Explainer

    Supervised LearningDoneStarted

    Precision, recall and F1: judging a classifier beyond accuracy

    Why a model that is 62% accurate by never predicting anything is useless, and how the confusion matrix, precision, recall and F1 tell you what a classifier really does.

    • Read a confusion matrix
    • Calculate and explain precision, recall, F1 and accuracy

    Grokem EditorialBeginner

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Read an experiment honestly, judge a classifier fairly and show the result clearly: p-values, an A/B test worked end to end, classification metrics, chart choice and dashboards. It is written for beginner readers.
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