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Dear Staff,
I appreciate the exercise but would like to ask two questions:
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why the weighted gini is weighted as it is? The choice of weights is not intuitive for me.
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Shouldn’t line 11 read as the following?
gini_info_gain_persons_2 = r_persons_2*gini_left_split + (1-r_persons_2)*gini_right_split
At the moment the line is not consistent with line 4, for instance.
Apart form that, it would be nice if you remove the “Revive the topic?” banner in this type of discussion. I understand the point of it in general discussions, but it discourages people to ask questions in FAQ-type topics, which are meant for that, aren’t they? I got the same banner for sharing a Portfolio Project and that really made me uneasy.
Thank you very much,
Llohann
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Hello.
For the exercise 2 preloaded formula in scrypt.py seems to be not entirely correct even though it doesn’t affect result cause we multiply by “0”.
preloaded:
“r_persons_2 = 604/912 #read ratio of the split from the tree!
gini_left_split = 0.434
gini_right_split = 0
gini_info_gain_persons_2 = r_persons_2gini_left_split + r_persons_2gini_right_split”
but based on the lesson above as I understood it should look something like this:
r_left_persons_2 = 604/912
r_right_persons_2 = 308/912
gini_left_split = 0.434
gini_right_split = 0
gini_info_gain_persons_2 = r_left_persons_2gini_left_split + r_right_persons_2gini_right_split
please correct me if I’m wrong. Thank you.
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I’m in agreement with the others that the second part of the exercise appears incorrect.
I’m also disappointed that nobody from Codecademy staff has ventured to step in.
