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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using JavaScript. Linear regression is ...

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News New Default Model for Visual Studio Copilot, So How Do You Choose? Along with a new default model, a new Consumptions panel in the IDE helps developers monitor their usage of the various models, ...

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Q&A The Science Behind User Interface Design By David Ramel 01/07/2025 User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive ...

One use case for the analysis of variance statistics technique is asking if student performances are the same in three classrooms taught by the same teacher but with different textbooks, says Dr.

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's 'permanent record.' If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the gradient boosting regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to ...

The Data Science Lab Regression Using PyTorch, Part 1: New Best Practices Machine learning with deep neural techniques has advanced quickly, so Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research updates ...

The Data Science Lab Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Using C# Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly ...