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 the high-stakes arena of corporate strategy, where million-dollar decisions are sometimes made over lukewarm coffee and passive-aggressive slide decks, decision-making isn’t just king — it’s the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.