Interpreting Confusion Matrixes

Using standard metrics to interpret classification models in machine learning

Matt Eland
AccessibleAI
Published in
8 min readJul 2, 2022

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Let’s say you’re running a classification experiment in machine learning and you have a trained model, but you want to understand how good that model actually is.

While there are a lot of different metrics and tools available to evaluate the performance of a classification experiment, the first one I always check is the confusion matrix.

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Matt Eland
AccessibleAI

Microsoft MVP in AI, AI Specialist at Leading EDJE. Author of "Refactoring with C#".