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 ...

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's March 27 Analytics Issue. Subscribe today! Decisions, decisions. For 11 years, as we have prospected for March Madness Cinderellas, our Giant Killers project ...

Objective The objective was to examine the 22 variables from the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool’s 5 th Edition (SCAT5) Symptom Evaluation using a decision tree analysis to identify those most likely ...