Travis Smith

An Example to Creating a Decision Tree

General

Every decision has the following steps: Determine the factor: In this example, it will be the absolute value of the correlation.Determine the correlationAnalyze the absolute values of the correlationDetermine the Split Value by taking the median.Add node to the decision tree.Split the data: left & right. Repeat with both sides of the data (left first, then right because in the end you want to be right). Given this data set, where X2, X10, and X11 are factors in the decision tree, ... Read More

Caching Problems with GraphQL at the Edge

Technology

GraphQL is awesome! However, the biggest problem with implementing GraphQL is that you have to do it at origin really. This is due primarily to major caching problems that CDNs cannot solve natively without changing something in their architecture. For us at The Weather Company, GraphQL solves a particular problem. In order to improve page performance and the performance of data utilization for the web isomorphically, we need to minimize the number of data calls, filter the data payload to ... Read More