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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. In response, asset managers began to develop ESG strategies and metrics to measure the environmental and social impact of their investments.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. In their 2002 paper Chawla et al.

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Credit Card Fraud Detection using XGBoost, SMOTE, and threshold moving

Domino Data Lab

Rules-based fraud detection (top) vs. classification decision tree-based detection (bottom): The risk scoring in the former model is calculated using policy-based, manually crafted rules and their corresponding weights. from sklearn import metrics. This is to prevent any information leakage into our test set. Model training.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

With more features come more potential post hoc hypotheses about what is driving metrics of interest, and more opportunity for exploratory analysis. Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes.