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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. In their 2002 paper Chawla et al.

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Mobile Marketing 2015: Rethink Customer Acquisition, Intent Targeting

Occam's Razor

2009 was the year of mobile. If your company has a non-stinky mobile website and mobile app then congratulations: you have successfully solved the problem of 2009! … But I was thrilled to see my utility marketing strategy in action! So, what is your company's mobile strategy? You'll cry most of the time.

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