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Luca Massaron
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Having joined Kaggle over 10 years ago, Luca Massaron is a Kaggle Grandmaster in discussions and a Kaggle Master in competitions and notebooks. In Kaggle competitions he reached no. 7 in the worldwide rankings. On the professional side, Luca is a data scientist with more than a decade of experience in transforming data into smarter artifacts, solving real-world problems, and generating value for businesses and stakeholders. He is a Google Developer Expert(GDE) in machine learning and the author of best-selling books on AI, machine learning, and algorithms.
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Alberto Boschetti
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Alberto Boschetti

Alberto Boschetti is a data scientist with expertise in signal processing and statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering and currently lives and works in London. In his work projects, he faces challenges ranging from natural language processing (NLP) and behavioral analysis to machine learning and distributed processing. He is very passionate about his job and always tries to stay updated about the latest developments in data science technologies, attending meet-ups, conferences, and other events.
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Outliers


After properly transforming all the quantitative and qualitative variables and fixing any missing data, what's left is just to detect any possible outlier and to deal with it by removing it from the data or by imputing it as if it were a missing case.

An outlier, sometimes also referred to as an anomaly, is an observation that is very different from all the others you have observed so far. It can be viewed as an unusual case that stands out, and it could pop up due to a mistake (an erroneous value completely out of scale) or simply a value that occurred (rarely, but it occurred). Though understanding the origin of an outlier could help to fix the problem in the most appropriate way (an error could be legitimately removed; a rare case could be kept or capped or even imputed as a missing case), what is of utmost concern is the effect of one or more outliers on your regression analysis results. Any anomalous data in a regression analysis means a distortion of the regression's coefficients...

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Luca Massaron

Having joined Kaggle over 10 years ago, Luca Massaron is a Kaggle Grandmaster in discussions and a Kaggle Master in competitions and notebooks. In Kaggle competitions he reached no. 7 in the worldwide rankings. On the professional side, Luca is a data scientist with more than a decade of experience in transforming data into smarter artifacts, solving real-world problems, and generating value for businesses and stakeholders. He is a Google Developer Expert(GDE) in machine learning and the author of best-selling books on AI, machine learning, and algorithms.
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Alberto Boschetti

Alberto Boschetti is a data scientist with expertise in signal processing and statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering and currently lives and works in London. In his work projects, he faces challenges ranging from natural language processing (NLP) and behavioral analysis to machine learning and distributed processing. He is very passionate about his job and always tries to stay updated about the latest developments in data science technologies, attending meet-ups, conferences, and other events.
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