Mitra: OnDeck increased applicant scoring coverage from 60% to over 95%
Abhra Mitra · Noah Breslow & Abhra Mitra, onDeck // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · May 28, 2014 · at 11:03
Abhra Mitra, Lead Data Scientist at OnDeck, details how OnDeck's credit scoring model expanded its applicant coverage across four iterations.
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“When we started, we could only score about 60% of our applicants. Now we can score more than 95%.”
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