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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Other challenges include communicating results to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring data security, enabling efficient collaboration between data scientists and data engineers, and determining appropriate key performance indicator (KPI) metrics.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Further, imbalanced data exacerbates problems arising from the curse of dimensionality often found in such biological data. def get_neigbours(M, k): nn = NearestNeighbors(n_neighbors=k+1, metric="euclidean").fit(M) Here is a simplified version of the SMOTE algorithm: import random import pandas as pd import numpy as np.