Handling imbalanced classes, up-sampling, down-sampling, performance metric, penalize algorithm, tree-based algorithm, SMOTE algorithm
  mbalanced classes put “accuracy” out of business. This is a surprisingly common problem in machine learning (specifically in classification), occurring in datasets with a disproportionate ratio of observations in each class.   Standard accuracy no longer reliably measures performance, which makes model training much trickier.   Imbalanced classes appear in many domains, including:                        Free: Data Science Career Guide     Learn how to  land a  high-paying job in data science  and  future-proof your career  with the most efficient  roadmap   to learning DS & ML for busy professionals.                                  Send My Download                   Fraud detection  Spam filtering  Disease screening  SaaS subscription churn  Advertising click-throughs    In this guide, we’ll explore 5 effective ways to handle imbalanced classes.   Intuition: Disease Screening Example   ...