Ilia Ilmer

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Ilia Ilmer

Writing about algorithms, systems, implementation details, and the parts of software work worth keeping around.

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Three Ways to Deal With Imbalance

In this post, I put together an interesting example of what to do with imbalanced datasets and why precision and recall matter.

Introduction

The following is part of a Machine learning assignment I had to do while at CUNY. This particular example illustrates quite well the importance of understanding various …

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Linear Regression as the Simplest Classifier

In this post I wanted to describe a simple application of a linear least squares method to a problem of data classification. It is a naive approach and is unlikely to beat more sophisticated techniques like Logistic Regression, for instance.

Imports

Some imports we are going to need for this …

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