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Avoiding class imbalances

Some data contains very imbalanced outcomes - like a rare disease dataset. When splitting randomly, you might end up with a very unfortunate split. Imagine all the rare observations are in the test and none in the training set. That would ruin your whole training process!

Fortunately, the initial_split() function provides a remedy. You are going to observe and solve these so-called class imbalances in this exercise.

There's already a split object diabetes_split available with a 75% training and 25% test split.

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    • Count the proportion of "yes" outcomes in the training and test sets of diabetes_split.
    • 2
      • Redesign diabetes_split so that outcome is equally distributed in both sets.
      • Count the proportion of yes outcomes in both datasets.
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