Dealing with Imbalanced Data

A guide to effectively handling imbalanced datasets in Python

Tara (Boyle) Hunter
Towards Data Science
5 min readFeb 3, 2019

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Imbalanced classes are a common problem in machine learning classification where there are a disproportionate ratio of observations in each class. Class imbalance can be found in many different areas including medical diagnosis, spam filtering, and fraud detection.

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