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The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition
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The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition

by Anthony So, Thomas Joseph, Robert Thas John, Andrew Worsley, Dr. Samuel Asare
August 2020
Beginner to intermediate
824 pages
15h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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13. Imbalanced Datasets

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to identify use cases where datasets are likely to be imbalanced; formulate strategies for dealing with imbalanced datasets; build classification models, such as logistic regression models, after balancing datasets; and analyze classification metrics to validate whether adopted strategies are yielding the desired results.

In this chapter, you will be dealing with imbalanced datasets, which are very prevalent in real-life scenarios. You will be using techniques such as SMOTE, MSMOTE, and random undersampling to address imbalanced datasets.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, Chapter 12, Feature Engineering, where we dealt with data points related to dates, we ...

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