Knowing when to stop

At what point should you stop chasing percentage points and label your model “done”?

Richard Farnworth
Towards Data Science
6 min readAug 19, 2020

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Photo by John Matychuk on Unsplash

In predictive analytics, it can be a tricky thing to know when to stop.

Unlike many of life’s activities, there’s no definitive finishing line, after which you can say “tick, I’m done”. The possibility always remains that a little more work can yield an…

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Data scientist, computer programmer and all-round geek with 10 years of using data in finance, retail and legal industries. Based in Adelaide, Australia.