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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

This renders measures like classification accuracy meaningless. In their 2002 paper Chawla et al. 2002) have performed a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of SMOTE- based up-sampling. 2002) provide an example that illustrates the modifications. Generation of artificial examples. Chawla et al., Chawla et al.,

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SOX Compliance Guide

Jet Global

We’ve created a comprehensive guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the SOX Act, to help you understand what’s in the act and why it’s important for your organization to have strong access controls and SOX compliant practices. What is SOX Compliance? Bush in July of the same year. Establish safeguards to set timelines.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

The most poignant for me was a simple approach for measuring noise within an organization. Measure how these decisions vary across your population. More near-term, Kahneman suggested the use of pre-mortems – also called backcasting, as a contrapositive of forecasting. my answer was almost immediate: Daniel Kahneman.

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

But this does not mean that the slice will continue to exhibit an extreme value on this measurement in the future. Regression to the mean If enough slices are examined, there will certainly be some slices with extreme values on metrics of interest. What is to be done? 109:2211–2213. [3] 3] Hill, A. Perspect Biol Med., 45, 499–515. [5]