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 ...

One of the most important components of decision making is process organization. Using a decision tree to choose between different courses of action presents possible outcomes in graphic form, making ...

Decision trees are useful modeling tools to help you make decisions. Decision trees offer a structure to organize options and help you understand the possible results of choosing specific options.

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 ...