#215: (A Very) Real Talk about Simulation with Frances Sneddon
The Analytics Power Hour
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The Importance of Overfitting in Simulations
A simulation visualizes out this process where sometimes I think as analysts we don't get credit. Sometimes analysts don't fully understand the process themselves and so their analysis focuses on one aspect of it but misses other pieces. And maybe that's the that's where this can become a very powerful tool potentially then. Michael: Is there an idea of overfitting in building a simulation? So they all fit in. You mean having these at two perfects? Yeah, like where it like when you're doing a model, if it perfectly matches the training,. It's like too sensitive and then you put it with your test data and it's going to go kind of crazy.
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