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Weekly Precision and Recall
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Weekly Precision and Recall

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Given table tiktok_req (ID, DAY YYYY-MM-DD, PREDICTED 0/1, ACTUAL 0/1; key ID), compute the precision and recall for each week, and the precision change week over week and recall change week over week.

Asked in the Phone screen stage.

Output

  1. One row per calendar week, using Monday as the week start.
  2. Columns: week_start, precision, recall, precision_change, and recall_change.
  3. Include weeks with data, exclude rows without a date, order by week_start ascending, and return NULL when a metric has no valid denominator.

Schema

tiktok_req
ColumnTypeDescription
idPKINTUnique prediction record identifier
dayDATEDate on which the prediction was recorded
predictedSMALLINTModel prediction, either 0 or 1
actualSMALLINTObserved outcome, either 0 or 1
Tablestiktok_req
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