Lately, I have helped a lot of clients who have 5XX errors on SiteGround, especially eCommerce sites. If you are experiencing any 499, 500, 502, 503, and 504 errors on SiteGround, please know that they are very common. I know there is nothing more frustrating than having one's site down, especially if you do not know why! If your site is down, you are truly suffering: You lose those precious leadsYou lose revenue and real money whether via clients, ads, or purchases from your storeYou lose ... Read More
Improving Your Time Estimates: The Fudge Ratio
Do you always feel behind in your work? Do you find yourself achieving less than you hoped fairly often? Do some projects last forever while other projects are done well and timely? Or, do you feel like the Windows progress bar? Some people are awesome at time estimates while others are not. If you are anything like me (and I would believe many freelancers are but not including you, of course), then you have been or are really bad at estimating how much time a task or a project will take. ... Read More
An Example to Creating a Decision Tree
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