Decisions can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re juggling pros and cons in your head. A classic list might seem helpful, but it often falls short when the stakes are high, or the factors are ...

After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...

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 ...

Financial decisions often involve many criteria. It can be difficult to choose among several options that differ according to multiple criteria, some of which favor each option. A decision matrix ...

Changing jobs can be scary and confusing. Everybody has things that are important to them at a particular point in their career. Thinking clearly about what is important to you can be hard, but ...

Business owners have to make decisions every day on issues fraught with uncertainty. Information is not perfect, and the best choice is not always clear. One way to handle these vague situations is to ...