Unbalanced Data - Quick Start

Unbalanced Data - Quick Start

There is an unprecedented amount of data available. This has caused knowledge discovery to garner attention in recent years. However, many real-world datasets are imbalanced. Learning from imbalanced data poses major challenges and is recognized as needing significant attention.

The problem with imbalanced data is the performance of learning algorithms in the presence of underrepresented data and severely skewed class distributions. Models trained on imbalanced datasets strongly favor the majority class and largely ignore the minority class. Several approaches introduced to date present both data-based and algorithmic solutions.

The specific goals of this course are:

• Help the students understand the underline causes of this problem

• Discuss the different characteristics of an unbalanced dataset

• Highlight the severity and importance  of this branch of data science

• Give a general idea of the two main major state-of-the-art approaches that you developed to handle this problem.

• Go over two methods in details to give an idea about some of the techniques used and hopefully motivate the students to learn more.

  
  

Learn what is imbalanced learning is all about: causes, consequences and main solutions to handle unbalanced datasets

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What you will learn

• Understand the underline causes of the Class Imbalance problem
• Why it is a major challenge in machine learning and data mining fields
• Learn the different characteristics of imbalanced datasets

Rating: 4.2

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Bassam Almogahed