I see it time and again in Google interviews or new-grad hires: The way data structures and algorithms — among the most important subjects in a proper computer science curriculum — are learnt is often ...

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 ...

Second, you must write code that uses the splitting functions to create a tree data structure that computes a predicted class for a given input. In this article I explain how to compute disorder and ...