I liked this one a lot. I imagined that ‘train a linear classifier’ would be the next step, but didn’t do it due to laziness: it looks like that would probably have worked.
I do feel like my approach should have worked worse than it did—I did most of my evaluation by ignoring the scores and looking only at your historical classifications, and the one place where I let scores guide me into overriding my initial model (moving Student P from Humblescrumble to Serpentyne) it turned out I was incorrect and the initial model would have scored better (oops).
I liked this one a lot. I imagined that ‘train a linear classifier’ would be the next step, but didn’t do it due to laziness: it looks like that would probably have worked.
I do feel like my approach should have worked worse than it did—I did most of my evaluation by ignoring the scores and looking only at your historical classifications, and the one place where I let scores guide me into overriding my initial model (moving Student P from Humblescrumble to Serpentyne) it turned out I was incorrect and the initial model would have scored better (oops).