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 ...

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Decision tree analysis is a method of constructing a decision tree, which is a detailed representation of numerous potential solutions that can be utilized to address a specific problem to choose the ...

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 ...

For example, you might want to predict the sex of a person (male or female) based on their age, state where they live, income and political leaning. There are many other techniques for binary ...

Have you made a decision you regret? Or have you felt stuck making an important choice? We’ve all had those feelings. Making a decision, especially an important one, shouldn't be done impulsively or ...

As artificial intelligence revolutionizes the business world, a more subtle but equally powerful force is emerging: intuitive decision-making. Executives increasingly recognize that combining rational ...

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 ...