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Handling Imbalanced Data in Python

Ivan Palomares Carrascosa gives three ways to deal with imbalanced data:

Here’s the catch: having imbalanced data usually makes analysis processes more difficult, especially for machine learning models that can easily get biased toward the majority class as a result of dealing with data with a remarkably unequal class distribution, thereby ending up becoming an almost “dummy classifier” that assigns the same class to virtually everything — in the most extreme case.

This article shows several strategies to navigate and handle imbalanced datasets using two of Python’s most stellar libraries for “all things data”: Pandas and Scikit-learn.

Click through for those ways, including sample code.

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