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Bharatendra Rai
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Bharatendra Rai

Bharatendra Rai is a chairperson and professor of business analytics, and the director of the Master of Science in Technology Management program at the Charlton College of Business at UMass Dartmouth. He received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit. He received a master's in quality, reliability, and OR from Indian Statistical Institute, India. His current research interests include machine learning and deep learning applications. His deep learning lecture videos on YouTube are watched in over 198 countries. He has over 20 years of consulting and training experience in industries such as software, automotive, electronics, food, chemicals, and so on, in the areas of data science, machine learning, and supply chain management.
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Performance optimization tips and best practices

Improving model performance can involve different strategies. Here, we will discuss two main strategies. One strategy is to make changes to the model architecture and observe the results to get any useful insights or indications of improvement. Another strategy could involve exploring the transformation of the target variable. In this section, we will try a combination of both of these strategies.

Log transformation on the output variable

To overcome the issue of significant underestimation of the target variable at higher values, let's try log transformation on the target variable and see whether or not this helps us to further improve the model. Our next model has some...

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Published in: Dec 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789538779

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Bharatendra Rai

Bharatendra Rai is a chairperson and professor of business analytics, and the director of the Master of Science in Technology Management program at the Charlton College of Business at UMass Dartmouth. He received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit. He received a master's in quality, reliability, and OR from Indian Statistical Institute, India. His current research interests include machine learning and deep learning applications. His deep learning lecture videos on YouTube are watched in over 198 countries. He has over 20 years of consulting and training experience in industries such as software, automotive, electronics, food, chemicals, and so on, in the areas of data science, machine learning, and supply chain management.
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