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6.6 Datasets for AI

A dataset is an organized collection of data prepared for AI. It is usually split into a training set (to teach the model) and a test set (to check how well it learned on unseen data).

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Data is split: the training set teaches, the test set checks on unseen data.

To build an app that recognizes Ethiopian birr notes, you might collect thousands of photos, label each with its value, then split them: most for training and the rest for testing.

Scenario

You trained a model and it scores 99% on the training set but 60% on the test set. What likely happened?

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The portion of a dataset used to teach the model is the ___ set.