Brevity is the soul of wit. I have three (3) rules of effective business communication: 1) be brief; 2) be blunt; 3) be gone. This is good counsel for data scientists.
Decision Trees are a non-parametric supervised learning method used for classification and regression. The goal is to create a model that predicts the value of a target variable by learning simple decision rules inferred from the data features.
LNS Research and MESA International conducted a 2013-2014 ‘Metrics that Matter’ survey to identify the ways leading manufacturers are approaching "big data" and other manufacturing technologies and initiatives.
Data science and business analytics works with both structured and raw unstructured data. Yet the future belongs to raw unstructured or semi-structured data from both internal and external sources - increasingly delivered in (near) real-time.
I received a call from an old client who stated his analytics team had a recent string of failures alarming the firm and costing money. He asked me to review and audit the teams work and analytical processes in attempt to understand and remedy the failures. The data crunching technology was modern and data of varying quality and veracity abundant.
I immediately detected three (3) red flags:
