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The curse of Dimensionality

Domino Data Lab

Statistical methods for analyzing this two-dimensional data exist. This statistical test is correct because the data are (presumably) bivariate normal. When there are many variables the Curse of Dimensionality changes the behavior of data and standard statistical methods give the wrong answers. Data Has Properties.

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Defining data science in 2018

Data Science and Beyond

I got my first data science job in 2012, the year Harvard Business Review announced data scientist to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Two years later, I published a post on my then-favourite definition of data science , as the intersection between software engineering and statistics. Things have changed considerably since 2012.

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Credit Card Fraud Detection using XGBoost, SMOTE, and threshold moving

Domino Data Lab

Rules-based fraud detection (top) vs. classification decision tree-based detection (bottom): The risk scoring in the former model is calculated using policy-based, manually crafted rules and their corresponding weights. Let’s also look at the basic descriptive statistics for all attributes. 3f" % x) dataDF.describe().

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Using random effects models in prediction problems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Finally, through a case study of a real-world prediction problem, we also argue that Random Effect models should be considered alongside penalized GLM's even for pure prediction problems. Random effects models are a useful tool for both exploratory analyses and prediction problems. 5] Anoop Korattikara, et al.