From Raw to Refined: A Journey Through Data Preprocessing — Part 6: Imbalanced Datasets

From Raw to Refined: A Journey Through Data Preprocessing — Part 6: Imbalanced Datasets

This article will explain the concept of imbalanced datasets and the methods used to handle them.

Table of Content

1. What is imbalanced data?
2. Degree of imbalance
3. Why having an imbalanced dataset is a problem?
4. Methods to deal with imbalanced data
   - Try getting more data
   - Try changing the performance metric
   - Try sampling of the data
   - Try different …

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