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 ...

A decision tree is a machine learning technique that can be used for binary classification or multi-class classification. A binary classification problem is one where the goal is to predict the value ...

Data mining massive geological databases is a leading edge statistical technique useful in oil and gas exploration. Billions of dollars of potential profit can be generated from gas well data analysis ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...

Data mining is a process that turns large volumes of raw data into actionable intelligence. Data mining uses statistics and artificial intelligence to look for trends and anomalies in data. It's used ...