How to Handle SMOTE Data in Imbalanced Classification Problems

Know where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them

Steven Dye
Towards Data Science
5 min readMay 2, 2020

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Classification problems are quite common in the data science world. Whether it is fraud detection, sentiment analysis, or disease testing, being able to predict what group a particular data point is in is incredibly powerful.

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