Decision Trees and Dying Weasels

Jun 10, 2008 13:10

Reading Andrew W. Moore (CMU) on decision trees and data mining. I liked slide 21 of this presentation:

Manually looking at contingency tables
  • Looking at one contingency table: can be as much fun as reading an interesting book
  • Looking at ten tables: as much fun as watching CNN
  • Looking at 100 tables: as much fun as watching an infomercial
  • Looking at 100,000 tables: as much fun as a three week November vacation in Duluth with a dying weasel.

Saved it for later, and then wanted somehow to save this PDF search report:

Finished searching for:    weasel
Total instances found:     1

humour, interestingness

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