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Why Recall Matters

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Why do you use recall?

Asked in the Technical Phone Screen / Principal Data Scientist stage. Discussion around machine learning evaluation metrics. Focus on why recall is useful in a multi-stage retrieval and ranking system, and what it misses compared with precision or ranking metrics.