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How does Training vs Testing Data work
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A dataset is usually split into a training portion, often seventy to eighty percent, and a testing portion, the remaining twenty to thirty percent. The model only sees the training data during learning and is evaluated afterward on the testing data.
Real-world example A bank builds a loan approval model on data from the last five years and tests it on the most recent six months of applications to see how it would have performed in practice.