: Doctors measure the size of a tumor before treatment to see if the medicine shrinks it later on.
: The initial approved budget, used to monitor project spending. 📊 2. Data Science & Research: The "Before" Picture Baseline
: Programmers create a simple, "common-sense" model first. Advanced AI models must prove they can beat this baseline to be considered useful. 🎒 3. Education: Understanding Student Starting Points : Doctors measure the size of a tumor