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Machine Learning
Medium

You’re developing a churn prediction model for Netflix. One model achieves very strong performance on historical training data but performs poorly when evaluated on new users. A simpler baseline model shows more stable performance across datasets, but fails to capture many important churn patterns.

How would you investigate this? What is the probable cause? Determine what changes, if any, are needed to improve the model.

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SmartNews Salaries by Position

$210K
$324K
Software Engineer
Median: $220K
Mean (Average): $242K
Data points: 5
ML Engineer*
$210K
ML Engineer
Median: $210K
Mean (Average): $210K
Data points: 2
Product Manager*
$200K
Product Manager
Median: $200K
Mean (Average): $200K
Data points: 1
Data Scientist*
$190K
Data Scientist
Median: $190K
Mean (Average): $190K
Data points: 1
Business Analyst*
$155K
Business Analyst
Median: $155K
Mean (Average): $155K
Data points: 2

Most data science positions fall under different position titles depending on the actual role.

From the graph we can see that on average the Software Engineer role pays the most with a $242,000 base salary while the Business Analyst role on average pays the least with a $155,000 base salary.

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