An Elegant Way to Import Metrics From Sklearn

While using scikit-learn, one often imports multiple metrics to evaluate a model. Although there is nothing wrong with this practice, it makes the code inelegant and cluttered - with the initial few lines of the file overloaded with imports.

Instead of importing the metrics individually, you can use the 𝐠𝐞𝐭_𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐫() method. Here, you can pass the metric's name as a string, and it returns a scorer object for you.

Read more here: Scikit-learn page.

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