Workforce Management

Anyone who has worked in retail knows the anxiety that attends workforce scheduling for both manager and employee.  The manager wonders “Will my employees show up at the right times?” The employee wonders “Will I be scheduled for inconvenient times?  Enough hours? Too many hours?”  …

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The Curse of Dimensionality

There are more than 3 dozen curses in Harry Potter.  Data scientists have only one - the “curse of dimensionality.”  Dimensionality is the number of predictors or input variables in a model, and the “curse” refers to the problems that result from including too many…

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