Decision trees are major components of finance, philosophy, and decision analysis in university classes. Yet, many students ...

The study of decision trees and optimisation techniques remains at the forefront of modern data science and machine learning. Decision trees, with their inherent interpretability and efficiency, are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets that have a relatively simple underlying structure, and when the trained model must be easily interpretable, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of ...