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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. This renders measures like classification accuracy meaningless. def get_neigbours(M, k): nn = NearestNeighbors(n_neighbors=k+1, metric="euclidean").fit(M) return synthetic. link] Fisher, R.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by HENNING HOHNHOLD, DEIRDRE O'BRIEN, and DIANE TANG In this post we discuss the challenges in measuring and modeling the long-term effect of ads on user behavior. Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning.