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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

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In this article we discuss why fitting models on imbalanced datasets is problematic, and how class imbalance is typically addressed. Figure 3 shows visual explanation of how SMOTE generates synthetic observations in this case. References. Banko, M., & Brill, E. Scaling to very very large corpora for natural language disambiguation.

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Data Science at The New York Times

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When he retired in 2009 he had some time on his hands. In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.” One of the ways I frame that is, “Are you looking to build a predictive model? or a prescriptive model? or a descriptive model?”