Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) are becoming increasingly commonly used in machine learning as they offer a valuable insight into how your model is performing that isn’t captured with just log-loss, facilitating diagnosis of any issues. I won’t go into much detail of what ROC actually is here, as this post is more intended to help navigate people looking for a MAUC Python implementation. If however you are looking for an overview of ROC then I’d recommend Fawcett’s tutorial here.
The majority of my work is involved with machine learning using biologically inspired techniques, focusing on classification problems. I run my algorithms on benchmark datasets to test their validity and the effect of various parameters, and then these are used in real life medical applications. Trials can take a long time to prepare, and the data collection process can be somewhat challenging. The group I’m involved with researchs Neurodegenerative Diseases, particularly Parkinson’s Disease.