Junior faculty are often told to protect their time, but nobody provides instructions for how to do so. As an assistant professor at a public university, I have struggled to balance my course load, my ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons. The goal ...

Decision tree analysis is a method of constructing a decision tree, which is a detailed representation of numerous potential solutions that can be utilized to address a specific problem to choose the ...

Over the past several decades, organizations have invested vast resources in data infrastructure to improve decision success, but the results are mixed. A new approach called “decision-back” flips the ...

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...