Data Science
The Confusion Matrix
SQL Mastery Team
June 17, 2026
5 min read
Welcome to **Day 147**. Accurate models can still be dangerous.
The Scenarios
1. **False Positive**: The doctor says you're pregnant, but شما're a man. (Annoying, but not fatal).
2. **False Negative**: The security alarm doesn't go off during a robbery. (**Catastrophic**).
The Confusion Matrix
It's a 2x2 grid that shows:
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
cm = confusion_matrix(y_test, predictions)
sns.heatmap(cm, annot=True)
Precision vs Recall
Your Task for Today
Generate a confusion matrix for your classification model and identify how many "False Positives" it produced.
*Day 148: K-Means Clustering (Unsupervised Learning).*