After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...

A few nights ago, a former salesperson of mine who now manages a team called for advice. He said his new sales hire was having a difficult time getting meetings. I said, "Welcome to the club." He then ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression using the C# language. Unlike most implementations, this one does not use recursion ...

Business owners have to make decisions every day on issues fraught with uncertainty. Information is not perfect, and the best choice is not always clear. One way to handle these vague situations is to ...

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.

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 ...