From Presence to Balanced Training Data: Generating Absence Points for PathWild

In my previous post , I documented how I transformed raw GPS telemetry data from three elk tracking studies into structured training datasets. I ended with 4,650 points from South Bighorn, 94,591 from Southern GYE, and 104,913 from National Elk Refuge—all representing locations where elk were actually present. But for a binary classification model, presence data alone isn’t enough. I needed…