Abhra Mitra

Former Lead Data Scientist, OnDeck · 1 appearance on the record.

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Abhra Mitra served as the Lead Data Scientist and Data Analytics Manager at fintech lender OnDeck. He worked on credit modeling, fraud detection, and data-driven underwriting for small business financing.

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Mitra: OnDeck increased applicant scoring coverage from 60% to over 95%
“When we started, we could only score about 60% of our applicants. Now we can score more than 95%.”
Abhra Mitra May 28, 2014 ▶ 11:03 Noah Breslow & Abhra Mitra, onDeck // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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Mitra: OnDeck uses two to three human reviewers per loan application
“The second is loan applications. So there it, you know, it's typically two to three people so in the, in, in the case of, for example, industry prediction we would predict an industry, but we're not gonna automatically classify a loan applicant right off the b…”
Abhra Mitra May 28, 2014 ▶ 20:48 Noah Breslow & Abhra Mitra, onDeck // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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Noah Breslow & Abhra Mitra, onDeck // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Cap May 28, 2014 5m
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