Model Evaluation for Beginners: Splits, Cross-Validation, Confusion Matrices, and Calibration

A practical two-hour session on Model Evaluation for Beginners, focused on Splits, Cross-Validation, Confusion Matrices, and Calibration. Attendees work through concrete engineering tradeoffs, review examples, and leave with a checklist they can apply in real team projects.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Model Evaluation for Beginners
• Apply Splits in a small working example
• Apply Cross-Validation in a small working example
• Apply Confusion Matrices in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.