Glossary
Ontology recapitulates philology.
–Willard Van Orman Quine (c.f. Ernst Haeckel)
Accuracy
In a classification model, there are numerous metrics that might express the “goodness” of a model. Accuracy is often the default metric used, and is simply the number of right answers divided by the number of data points. For example, consider this hypothetical confusion matrix:
Predicted/Actual |
Human |
Octopus |
Penguin |
Human |
5 |
0 |
2 |
Octopus |
3 |
3 |
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