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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

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The problem with this approach is that in highly imbalanced sets it can easily lead to a situation where most of the data has to be discarded, and it has been firmly established that when it comes to machine learning data should not be easily thrown out (Banko and Brill, 2001; Halevy et al., Chawla et al. References. link] Chawla, N.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

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Also, while surveying the literature two key drivers stood out: Risk management is the thin-edge-of-the-wedge ?for My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI. A very big mess since circa 2001, and now becoming quite a dangerous mess. a second priority?at

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

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Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. The probabilistic nature changes the risks and process required. We face problems—crises—regarding risks involved with data and machine learning in production. Public Health Reports (2017-07-10).

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

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What are the projected risks for companies that fall behind for internal training in data science? In terms of teaching and learning data science, Project Jupyter is probably the biggest news over the past decade – even though Jupyter’s origins go back to 2001! Wes McKinney (2017). Aurélien Géron (2017).