Introduction - We do live in a better world A great number of voices claim that the world is in a terrible shape and that an apocalyptic future awaits us. The truth is that life has never been better. We live in a world in which extreme poverty has dropped from 30 percent in 1990... Continue Reading →
A health-care inspired random forest model: Predicting risk of heart failure
In my previous blog post, Random Forest: An intuitive and an analytical introduction (part 1: Decision trees), I discussed the theory behind decision trees and was deliberately technical because I believe that understanding the methods used is a key to making good predictions. It is however not enough to have a theoretical knowledge of a particular... Continue Reading →