Use balanced accuracy with adult census dataset - #785
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I would not recommend to use the balanced accuracy because it is an arbitrary metric. I would not advise it anymore in scikit-learn as well. Here, I don't think that the balanced ratio is that catastrophic: we could therefore compare the accuracy of a |
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Inspired by this question in the forum, this PR uses balanced accuracy instead of accuracy to score a logistic regression pipeline with an interaction feature engineering step.
It feels more natural to me to use balanced accuracy as scoring metric, as it has already been used for the adult census dataset in previous notebooks.
I also took the opportunity to tweak the general wording.