The Arkansas Department of Education withdrew a multimillion-dollar contract with Solution Tree from consideration by state lawmakers, leaving in doubt whether the agency will have a firm providing ...

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 ...

Solution Tree's existing agreements with the Education Department are set to expire at the end of the month. Earlier this year, the firm submitted a proposed contract that would have cost the state ...

"Continuous improvement" is not what the data show, but that apparently doesn't matter to ADE. A company who pulled their bid for a multi-year exclusive contract with the state in May has now been ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a powerful ally to teachers, enabling them to streamline instructional processes. While AI offers exciting opportunities for educators to enhance ...

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 ...

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 ...

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...