Decision

Big tech has launched a media blitz aimed at derailing one of the most ground-breaking bipartisan bills in the US that would bar tech companies, like Amazon, from giving preference to their own businesses on their websites.Amazon lambasted the bill on Wednesday saying in a blog post that the bill "jeopardizes two of the things American consumers love most about Amazon: the vast selection and low prices made possible by opening our store to third-party selling partners, and the promise of fast, free shipping through Amazon…

How to train them and how they work, with working code examplesA big decision tree in Zimbabwe. Image by author.In this post we’re going to discuss a commonly used machine learning model called decision tree. Decision trees are preferred for many applications, mainly due to their high explainability, but also due to the fact that they are relatively simple to set up and train, and the short time it takes to perform a prediction with a decision tree. Decision trees are natural to tabular data, and, in fact, they currently…

What is a decision tree? What is a random forest? How do they decide to split the data? How do they predict class labels in classification tasks? Everything explained in 10 minutes.A visual example of a random forest consisting of 3 decision trees (Source).Hi folks! I hope you are doing well. I have intented to write this post for a long time, so here it is! Let’s get started!Random forests is an ensemble learning method for classification, regression and other tasks . It is a very well-known machine learning (ML)…

For the past six weeks, Johnny Depp's $50 million defamation trial has remained a viral case, as over 100 hours of testimonies have been delivered in the Virginia court and broadcast on CourtTV. Following riches of information from Depp and his lawyers on his side of the story and Amber Heard’s defense, a seven-person jury is tasked with coming to a unanimous decision regarding whether Heard defamed the Pirates star. So what happens next? The jury will continue to deliberate on the case after the holiday weekend, this…

Data-Driven Decision Making often provides a perfect answer to the “Wrong Question”.Photo by Claudio Schwarz on UnsplashNowadays, it is hard to find any firm that does not put “Data-Driven Decisions Making” (DDDM in short) on the top of their strategy list. Companies have more data than ever, and their natural incentive is to find out how they can create value out of this data. However, according to the report¹ (survey of 190 executives across various industries in the U.S.):Only 32% of companies reported being able to…

Learn everything you need to know about decision trees, including a Python examplePhoto by Simon Wilkes on UnsplashThe Decision Tree is a machine learning algorithm that takes its name from its tree-like structure and is used to represent multiple decision stages and the possible response paths. The decision tree provides good results for classification tasks or regression analyses.With the help of the tree structure, an attempt is made not only to visualize the various decision levels but also to put them in a certain…

Korean director Park Chan-wook was once the master of gonzo revenge violence but with the adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel The Handmaiden in 2016 he pivoted with flair to the elegantly designed suspense thriller. And it is in this spirit that he’s back in Cannes with this sensational black-widow noir romance, featuring a glorious leading turn from the Chinese star Tang Wei, who has bettered her iconic performance in Ang Lee’s 2007 spy drama Lust, Caution. She is effortlessly charismatic and (that overworked word)…

Some financial experts have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to adopt a more realistic approach to its policy decision expected on Tuesday. This advice is coming as the MPC is scheduled to holds its bi-monthly meeting on Monday. The experts, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews, urged the committee to take practical policy decisions to effectively tackle the country’s monetary and economic challenges. A past president of the Chartered Institute…

CHAPEL HILL, N. C.—President Biden in the coming weeks is expected to decide whether to put forward a student-loan forgiveness plan aimed in part at motivating young voters to cast ballots in November’s elections.At the University of North Carolina, and in neighborhoods across the surrounding Research Triangle area, there are signs that whatever approach he takes could leave swaths of voters dissatisfied. CHAPEL HILL, N. C.—President Biden in the coming weeks is expected to decide whether to put forward a student-loan…

Canada bans Huawei equipment from 5G networks and orders removal of all equipment by 2024, drawing condemnation from China. Huawei already supplies some Canadian telecommunications firms with 4G equipment. (AP)…