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 ...

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 ...

In today’s fast-paced business environment, making well-informed decisions quickly is a crucial skill for leaders. Understanding different models of decision-making can provide you with the tools to ...

Here is a [recently developed] tool for analyzing the choices, risks, objectives, monetary gains, and information needs involved in complex management decisions, like plant investment. by John F.

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 ...

The two main downsides to decision trees are that they often don't work well with large datasets, and they are highly susceptible to model overfitting. When tackling a binary classification problem, ...