Instruction: Explain why it's important to split a dataset and how you would do it.
Context: This question aims to uncover the candidate's approach to preparing data for training and evaluating machine learning models.
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The way I'd think about it is this: I split the dataset so the model is trained on one portion and evaluated on unseen data from another portion. In practice, I usually think in terms of train, validation, and test rather than just...